Festivals & practices
Passover
The festival remembering Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
Also called · Pesach
What it means
The festival remembering Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt.
Its founding account includes a lamb, blood placed at the entrances, a hurried household meal, and instructions to remember the night in later generations.
How it appears in the Bible
The Gospels place Jesus’ final meal and death in the Passover season, so New Testament writers draw on its language of deliverance and sacrifice.