What is the relationship of the Passover to Jesus' death on the cross?

Answer 1

The passover meal remembers when God brought the Hebrews out of Egypt. They were saved by killing a lamb and putting the blood on the door posts of their houses. God brought them out of Egypt into a new life in the promised land.

We are saved by the blood of Jesus - the lamb of God. Those who believe are saved out of this life (Egypt) to a new life in Christ- from bondage to freedom.

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Answer 2

When Jesus said Take, eat, this is My Body. It also connects when He said: Take of it, all of you, this is my blood.

The only connection between Jesus and the Passover meal (or seder) is that the famous Last Supper of Jesus (as painted by Leonardo daVinci) is believed to have been a seder. The holiday of Passover itself is tremendously older than Jesus and is not about Jesus.

Answer:

The Passover is a "prophecy" that always "pointed" to Jesus' fulfillment of it: the perfect sacrifice; the Divine Blood of God shed for the sins of man.

"...For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us..." (I Cor.5:7).

On that Passover night when He was betrayed... He partook of the last Passover He would have with His disciples in His fleshly existence.

"...With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." (Luke 22:15-16)

And it was then that He "changed" the way the Passover was to be observed with the "bread and wine" symbols, until He returns to earth with the Kingdom of God.

No longer was "animal sacrifice" required by the end of that day which ended the next evening.

"...Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world... I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God." (John 1:29-34)

Jesus established the symbols of the "bread and wine" for the Passover meal on that Passover night... and they became the biblically-sanctified way for the Passover to be obeserved from that time, forward.

Up until that moment... all the "lambs" that were slain and eaten on all the Passover evenings before represented and pointed to the "body of Christ."

The Passover is not a "feast" day... it's a "memorial" day. The "feast" day is the day after the Passover:

"...In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's [Jesus Christ's] Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread." (Lev.23:5-6)

The Passover meal IS Jesus Christ... the meal of which now consists [by Jesus' own authority] of the "Bread" [Christ, the Lamb's, body]... and the "Wine" [Christ, the Lamb's, blood].

"...this DO in REMEMBRANCE of Me." (Luke 22:19)

The Passover meal has EVERYTHING to do with Jesus' body.

Answer 3

A:In the synoptic gospels, Jesus and his disciples celebrated the Passover feast as the Last Supper. Since Jewish law counts a day from sunset to sunset, Jesus was also crucified on the day of the Passover.

In John's Gospel, Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation for the Passover - the day before. This gospel draws symbolic parallels between Jesus and the paschal lamb which will be killed and eaten for Passover.

Answer 4

The Bible tells us that Jesus first ate His Passover meal with His disciples during the night portion of the Passover (see Genesis when the 24 hour period begins with sunset to sunset - night and day). He was arrested, judged, tortured and scourged, sentenced and Crucified during the daylight portion of the Passover - as Paul calls Him our 'Passover Lamb' for the sins of all mankind - and died approximately 3 PM. He was quickly buried before the sunset and beginning of the new day called the 1st Day of Unleavened Bread.