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The Passover Instituted
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
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that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
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Passover Regulations
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
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And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to 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 a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.
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“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be left until morning.
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The Passover and Unleavened Bread
‘These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
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On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.
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The Second Passover
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
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“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
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So Moses told the children of Israel that they should keep the Passover.
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And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
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Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day.
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“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the Lord’s Passover.
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They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break one of its bones. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.
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But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from among his people, because he did not bring the offering of the Lord at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.
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‘And if a stranger dwells among you, and would keep the Lord’s Passover, he must do so according to the rite of the Passover and according to its ceremony; you shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and the native of the land.’ ”
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Offerings at Passover
‘On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord.
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They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
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The Passover Reviewed
“Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to put His name.
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“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you;
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but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt.
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Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
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And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
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Then the king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”
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Such a Passover surely had never been held since the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah.
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But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was held before the Lord in Jerusalem.
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Hezekiah Keeps the Passover
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.
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For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month.
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So they resolved to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem, since they had not done it for a long time in the prescribed manner.
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Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.
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For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the Lord.
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For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement for everyone
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Josiah Keeps the Passover
Now Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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So slaughter the Passover offerings, consecrate yourselves, and prepare them for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.”
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Then Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these were from the king’s possessions.
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And his leaders gave willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand six hundred from the flock, and three hundred cattle.
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Also Conaniah, his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand from the flock and five hundred cattle.
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And they slaughtered the Passover offerings; and the priests sprinkled the blood with their hands, while the Levites skinned the animals.
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Also they roasted the Passover offerings with fire according to the ordinance; but the other holy offerings they boiled in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them quickly among all the lay people.
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So all the service of the Lord was prepared the same day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord, according to the command of King Josiah.
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And the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
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There had been no Passover kept in Israel like that since the days of Samuel the prophet; and none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as Josiah kept, with the priests and the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.
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The Passover Celebrated
And the descendants of the captivity kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were ritually clean. And they slaughtered the Passover lambs for all the descendants of the captivity, for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
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“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
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“You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
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Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples
Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
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And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.” ’ ”
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So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.
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The Plot to Kill Jesus
After two days it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take Him by trickery and put Him to death.
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Jesus Celebrates the Passover with His Disciples
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”
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Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’
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So His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover.
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The Boy Jesus Amazes the Scholars
His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
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The Plot to Kill Jesus
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover.
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Jesus and His Disciples Prepare the Passover
Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed.
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And He sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”
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Then you shall say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’
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So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
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Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;
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Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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The Discerner of Hearts
Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.
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Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.
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And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
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The Anointing at Bethany
Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.
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Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
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In Pilate’s Court
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
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Taking the Place of Barabbas
“But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
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Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
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So when he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover.
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Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
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By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
