Good, because that's what Easter is, a celebration of the resurrection of Christ, in ENGLISH. You wouldn't even be having this argument if we spoke another European language because all the words for Easter are variations of the Latin word PASCHA, which refers to Passover. For example, PASCAL in French, PASCUA in Spanish, PASKHA in Russian, etc.
Try writing stuff in your own words instead of copying and pasting other people's writings. Quotes should only be used to document facts in question.
I understand the languages just fine, but perhaps you can answer some questions then concerning your 'easter', and the day its on, and also if you could tell me what the word for "resurrection", "firstfruits" and "wavesheaf" in Greek, French, Spanish, Russian is? and how long [1 day, or 7 days, or 8 days] did Jesus keep the "passover" and when?:
Jesus ate the 'last supper', with the Disciples on Thursday night, yes?
Jesus, the Lamb of God, died in the 6th day of the week in the afternoon, being "finished", as at Creation, which was the Passover day, the 14th of Abib/Nisan, yes?
Jesus remained in the Tomb on the Sabbath of the LORD, the 7th Day, having entered into His rest, as at Creation, the 15th of Abib/Nisan, and where the bread/manna was not to be found in the field, being also the first day [of 7 days, 15th-21st of Abib] of unleavened bread, yes?
Jesus being raised [resurrected] to life, the 'first [day] of the week', as the firstfruits and wavesheaf, being the second day [of 7 days] of unleavened bread, going back to work of Mediator of the Heavenly Sanctuary, the 16th of Abib/Nisan, yes?
Why would anyone call Sunday {"the first [day] of the week"} the
Pascha?
Sunday is 3 days too late...
According to Scripture, the
"passover" was in
one single night, at
"even", when the LORD passed over:
Exodus 12:5 KJV - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:6 KJV - And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus 12:7 KJV - And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exodus 12:8 KJV - And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
Exodus 12:9 KJV - Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exodus 12:10 KJV - And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus 12:11 KJV - And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
Exodus 12:12 KJV - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD.
Exodus 12:13 KJV - And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye [are]: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:14 KJV - And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
"Passover" = "this day" [singular], and according to Genesis a "day" is "evening and morning", but notice that the "Passover" was to be eaten at "even".
The days following the 14th [at even], from the 15th to the 21st [7 days] of the First Month Abib, called the days [plural] of unleavened bread, were after the LORD passed over in that single night and delivered them out of Egypt.
The Definition for Pascha, from Orthodox Wiki is as follows:
"
... Pascha is a transliteration of the Greek word, which is itself
a transliteration of the Hebrew pesach, both words meaning
Passover. (A minority of English-speaking Orthodox prefer the English word 'Pasch.')"-
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Pascha
Passover means:
"... the
Passover was a family festival. It was
celebrated at night, at the full moon of the vernal equinox, the 14th of the month of Abib or of the corn (called Nisan after the exile). ..." -
Passover - OrthodoxWiki
Paul is clear that Jesus was the Passover at His death:
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 1 Corinthians 5:7
And that in His resurrection, He is then the Firstfruits, which would fit perfectly with typology and prophecy.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Corinthians 15:20
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 1 Corinthians 15:23
How is Christ the
Passover/Pascha on the First Day of the week?
Please explain using Scripture.
Then explain how you come to
a weekly event [Sundays] from
a Yearly event [16th of Abib/Nisan], using Scripture.
Here are all of the times that
"Passover" [in English] is used in Scripture:
Exodus 12:11 KJV - And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it [is] the LORD'S passover.
Exodus 12:21 KJV - Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
Exodus 12:27 KJV - That ye shall say, It [is] the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
Exodus 12:43 KJV - And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
Exodus 12:48 KJV - And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 34:25 KJV - Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
Leviticus 23:5 KJV - In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD'S passover.
Numbers 9:2 KJV - Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Numbers 9:4 KJV - And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
Numbers 9:5 KJV - And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Numbers 9:6 KJV - And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:
Numbers 9:10 KJV - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or [be] in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Numbers 9:12 KJV - They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
Numbers 9:13 KJV - But the man that [is] clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers 9:14 KJV - And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers 28:16 KJV - And in the fourteenth day of the first month [is] the passover of the LORD.
Numbers 33:3 KJV - And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Deuteronomy 16:1 KJV - Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 KJV - Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there.
Deuteronomy 16:5 KJV - Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Deuteronomy 16:6 KJV - But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
Joshua 5:10 KJV - And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 5:11 KJV - And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the selfsame day.
2 Kings 23:21 KJV - And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as [it is] written in the book of this covenant.
2 Kings 23:22 KJV - Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
2 Kings 23:23 KJV - But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, [wherein] this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:1 KJV - And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:2 KJV - For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles 30:5 KJV - So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written.
2 Chronicles 35:7 KJV - And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8 KJV - And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:9 KJV - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 30:15 KJV - Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:18 KJV - For a multitude of the people, [even] many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
2 Chronicles 35:1 KJV - Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
2 Chronicles 35:6 KJV - So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
2 Chronicles 35:7 KJV - And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these [were] of the king's substance.
2 Chronicles 35:8 KJV - And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred [small cattle], and three hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:9 KJV - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand [small cattle], and five hundred oxen.
2 Chronicles 35:11 KJV - And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood] from their hands, and the Levites flayed [them].
2 Chronicles 35:13 KJV - And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the [other] holy [offerings] sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided [them] speedily among all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:16 KJV - So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
2 Chronicles 35:17 KJV - And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
2 Chronicles 35:18 KJV - And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 35:19 KJV - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
Ezra 6:19 KJV - And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth [day] of the first month.
Ezra 6:20 KJV - For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them [were] pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
Ezekiel 45:21 KJV - In the first [month], in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Matthew 26:2 KJV - Ye know that after two days is [the feast of] the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
Matthew 26:17 KJV - Now the first [day] of the [feast of] unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Matthew 26:18 KJV - And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Matthew 26:19 KJV - And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.
Mark 14:1 KJV - After two days was [the feast of] the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put [him] to death.
Mark 14:12 KJV - And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark 14:14 KJV - And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Mark 14:16 KJV - And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke 2:41 KJV - Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke 22:1 KJV - Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Luke 22:7 KJV - Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
Luke 22:8 KJV - And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
Luke 22:11 KJV - And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
Luke 22:13 KJV - And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Luke 22:15 KJV - And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
John 2:13 KJV - And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
John 2:23 KJV - Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast [day], many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John 6:4 KJV - And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
John 11:55 KJV - And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
John 12:1 KJV - Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John 13:1 KJV - Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 18:28 KJV - Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
John 18:39 KJV - But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
John 19:14 KJV - And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
1 Corinthians 5:7 KJV - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Hebrews 11:28 KJV - Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Thus there are 49 times that the Hebrew word "pecach" is used in the Old Testament [Exodus 12:11,21,27,43,48, 34:25; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:2,4,5,6,10,12,13,14 [2 times], 28:16, 33:3; Deuteronomy 16:1,2,5,6; Joshua 5:10,11; 2 Kings 23:21,22,23; 2 Chronicles 30:1 [two times],2,5,15,17,18 [2 times], 35:1,6,7,8,9,11,13,16,17,18,19; Ezra 6:19,20; Ezekiel 45:21]
, 46 times as "passover" [Exodus 12:11,21,27,43,48, 34:25; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:2,4,5,6,10,12,13,14[2 times], 28:16, 33:3; Deuteronomy 16:1,2,5,6; Joshua 5:10,11; 2 Kings 23:21,22,23; 2 Chronicles 30:1 [two times],2,5,15,17,18 [2 times], 35:1,6,11,13,16,17,18,19; Ezra 6:19,20; Ezekiel 45:21]
, and 3 times as "passover offerings" [2 Chronicles 35:7,8,9]
.
Thus there are 29 times that the Greek word "pascha" is used in the New Testament [Matthew 26:2,17,18,19; Mark 14:1,12 [2 times],14,16; Luke 2:41, 22:1,7,8,11,13,15; John 2:13,23, 6:4, 11:55 [2 times], 12:1, 13:1, 18:28,39, 19:14; Acts 12:4, 1 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:28]
, 28 times it is translated "passover" [Matthew 26:2,17,18,19; Mark 14:1,12 [2 times],14,16; Luke 2:41, 22:1,7,8,11,13,15; John 2:13,23, 6:4, 11:55 [2 times], 12:1, 13:1, 18:28,39, 19:14; 1 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:28]
, and 1 time as "easter" [Acts 12:4].
Here is the one time that
"easter" is mentioned in Scripture [KJB], and please notice when it is:
Acts 12:4 KJV - And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Let us see the context:
Acts 12:1 KJV - Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth [his] hands to vex certain of the church.
Acts 12:2 KJV - And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
Acts 12:3 KJV - And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
Acts 12:4 KJV - And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Acts 12:5 KJV - Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.
Acts 12:6 KJV - And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
etc, Peter being set free that very "night" [first part of the scriptural day, 'evening'], Herod finding out and then having the soldiers killed in the very "day" [light time]. How can this passage be referring to "passover" and not the pagan festival which could occur some time after?
When Jesus said that he would "keep" the "Passover", was it one day at even, or an 8 days, or an 7 days length of time?:
Matthew 26:18 KJV - And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
I wasn't sure who are "THEY"???? "They" seem to be doing way too many things in your post to be addressing all at once. You'll get more bites if you stay on topic and say something succinct. Good luck to you.
