Passover 2025

[BrotherJJ]

Passover/Pesach begins at sundown on Saturday April 12th 2025 & ends at nightfall on April 20th 2025.

Passover week: Christ triumphal entry is on Nisan 10 (the Passover Lamb is chosen see Lev 23:3 below), Christ is killed on Nisan 14 (see Lev 23:6 below). 3 day's later He's resurrected.

Lev 23: (to shorten post I paraphrased vs 1-5)
1 the LORD spake to Moses & Aaron in Egypt, saying,

2 The month of Nisan shall be the 1st month of the year to you.

3 On the 10th day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb:
(MY NOTE: The passover lamb is chosen on Nisan 10. God's chosen Lamb rode into Jerusalem a donkey, on Nisan 10)

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish:
(MY NOTE: Jesus was sinless 2 Cor 5:21, Heb 4:15, 1 Jn 3:5 1 Pet 1:19, 1 Pet 2:22)

6 ye shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month & kill it in the evening.
(MY NOTE The Passover lamb is to be killed on Nisan 14. Jesus approximate Nisan 14 timeline: Day begins at sundown. Jesus eats his last supper with his 12 chosen (7-9pm). They go the Garden of Gethsemane & Jesus prays (9pm -midnight) He is arrested (midnight) the Priests accuse, abuse & condemn Him (midnight-6am). He's taken to Pilate questioned, abused, scourged & sentenced to death (6am til 8am). Nailed to the cross (9am) suffers til & dies at (3pm) all on Nisan 14.)

7 the 1st day will be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
(MY NOTE: Holy convocation: Hebrew: holy = set apart/sanctified/called out. H6942 - qadash - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (NASB). Hebrew: convocation = rehearsal/recital. H4744 מקרא - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon. Holy convocation = A set apart rehearsal done yearly for aprox 1500 yrs where the Nation of Israel rehearsed Messiah's coming sin payment death)

1 Cor 5:7 (C) For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
(MY NOTE: Christ is our Passover Lamb)

Ex 12:43-48. No foreigners, servants, sojourners or strangers could partake in the in the Passover meal unless they were circumcised. (Also see Gen 17:7-14)
(MY NOTE: Only people under the covenant of circumcision were allowed to eat the Passover meal)

1 Cor 11:27 Who ever eats this bread, & drinks this cup of the Lord, unworthily, will be guilty of the body & blood of the Lord
(MY NOTE: I've seen many people/teachers/preachers tie/force sin into this verse. Jesus who gave the ordinance, PAID, for the believers sins. This verse is warning NON-believers/anyone that hasn't been sealed with Christ New covenant indwelling Holy Spirit . Uncircumcised were forbidden to partake in the OT & NON-believers are not to partake in this NT ordinance)

Ex 12:14 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.
(MY NOTE: This day shall be MEMORIAL = a reminder/record or chronicle of redemption)

1 Cor 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me
(MY NOTE: Do this in REMEMBRANCE of Me & My >/Finished sin redemptive work)

Passover/The Lords Supper are God given ordinance's = Decree/laws given as as memorial/remembrance, of REDEMPTION! (Also see Ex 12:26,27 & Vrs:42-49)

For Jews, deliverance from slavery & 10th plague/angel of death. For Christians deliverance from sin & death

Like Passover the Last Supper ended with the singing Hallel hymns (Ps 113-118 - Mat 26:30 & Mk 14:26)

Jn 6:53-58 Speaks to the importance of our partaking

As to how often: I believe Acts 20:7 suggest weekly, as does Lev 24:9 & 1 Chron 9:32.

Christ death shadows Temple tradition:
At 9am on Nisan 14 the Temple Priest tied the lamb to a stake to be sacrificed. The Priest then blows the shofar (rams horn/trump). So all the people knew the chosen lamb is prepared to be sacrificed.

Early Nisan 14 God's sinless Lamb/Christ was carrying his cross, marching up the hill to Calvary. At 9am (Mk 15:25) on Nisan 14 Jesus the Lamb of God is tied and nailed to the cross.

At 3pm on Nisan 14 the Temple Priest brings a sharp knife and kills the sinless lamb. The Priest then blows the shofar (rams horn/trump). So, all the people know the passover lamb as been sacrificed/killed.

At 3pm (Mk 15:33) on Nisan 14 Jesus Christ hears the Temple trump and in a loud voice (Jn 19:28 & 30) Jesus proclaims: tetelestai/It is FINISHED/Paid in Full & dies. tetelestai/also an accounting term meaning Completed/Paid in Full.

Final Passover parsing, "High Day":
Jn 18:28 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.
(MY NOTE: Jesus is taken to the Roman/gentile Hall of Judgment on Passover/Nisan 14 (the day the lamb was killed). Before the Passover/Seder Meal was to be eaten on Nisan 15)

Jn 19:31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
(MY NOTE: Vs 31, For that sabbath was "AN HIGH DAY". Although treated as a Sabbath, a High Day is not necessarily the 7th day of the week. High Day - 6 of the 7 possible days Nisan 15 falls on are High (sabbath) Days. A High Sabbath is the 1st day of the 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread.

Jesus died on Passover/Nisan 14. Nisan 14 is always a DAY OF PREPATATION, for the Seder meal, eaten on Nisan 15 & always treated as a Sabbath even when it doesn't fall on day 7. Jesus was removed from the cross on Nisan 14/day of preparation before sunset 6-7pm).

Find additional feasts info here: Feasts Of The Lord - Blog

 

[com7fy8]

Christ is our Passover.

Drinking and eating unworthily has much to do with how we are relating with one another. When Paul says they were not eating the Lord's Supper, right there he criticizes how one person could eat and drink next to someone who had "nothing". And after he says that many are sick and weak and dying, he tells them "therefore" to wait for each other. He is concerned with how they are relating . . . not only if each person is confessing each person's sins. That can be isolating someone to thinking only about oneself, versus sharing and loving as family in Jesus.

So, I see how the remembrance of Jesus should include ***loving*** like Jesus did > not remembering Him only by talking and reading and thinking about Him, but have His love living in us in memory of Jesus.

 

[FireDragon76]

Historians debate when exactly Jesus was executed. It was probably around Passover, but it may not have been exactly on the observance of the Passover.

 

[Radagast]

Historians debate when exactly Jesus was executed. It was probably around Passover, but it may not have been exactly on the observance of the Passover.

On the basis of the Bible account, Christians have always accepted that it was at Passover, and the traditional Easter date is the Sunday after Passover.

 

[FireDragon76]

On the basis of the Bible account, Christians have always accepted that it was at Passover, and the traditional Easter date is the Sunday after Passover.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus' last supper occurs before the Passover. John is also unique in not having an institution narrative, instead the central act of the supper is Jesus washing the disciples feet and giving them the mandate of the new commandment.

 

[BrotherJJ]

Historians debate when exactly Jesus was executed. It was probably around Passover, but it may not have been exactly on the observance of the Passover.

Your cited historians [whomever they are] don't know scripture.

Ex 3:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5 (A) Your lamb shall be without blemish

6 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.
(PARSING: VERSE 3; On the "10th day" of the beginning month. On the Jewish calendar Nisan is the beginning month!(SEE Esther 3:7)

VERSE 5; The chosen (by the father/head of the household) lamb had to be without blemish

VERSE 6; on the "14th day" the sacrificial lamb was killed!

On Nisan 10, God the Father's ""without blemish/sin free chosen Lamb/Jesus"". Rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. On Nisan 14/PASSOVER God's chosen sacrificial sin atoning Lamb was killed!
(NOTE: there was a Passover lamb/killed on the 14th day of Nisan & there was a Passover meal eaten on the 15th day of Nisan.

Additional supporting scripture

Lev 23:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.

6 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.
(NOTE: Verse 5, on the 14th day the Passover lamb is killed. Verse 6, on the 15th day the Passover meal is eaten.)