The New Testament continues this analogy of Jesus as a sacrificial lamb: “the lamb of God” (John 1:29, 36), “Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7), and “the ...

Thus Jesus, our Passover lamb, was sacrificed for our sins on Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7), and His blood protects us from the angel of death. Jesus died on the cross and was buried before sunset.

These eight points illustrate how John presents Jesus as the true Passover Lamb and the fulfillment of the Exodus story. 1. Barabbas and the cross as a vicarious sacrifice.

The Last Supper took place during a significant time in the Jewish calendar. Passover, a celebration of God’s miraculous ...

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins.” 1 John 4:9-11 Just as the Israelites depended upon the blood of the passover ...

Jesus doesn't eat a passover meal, Jesus is the passover meal, at least within the Christian mind in the way that John tells the story. Now this theme of the Lamb of God, the Passover symbolism ...

For Christians, it’s about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the sacrificial Passover Lamb who promises eternal life to all who believe. In 1739, Charles Wesley penned one of the most ...

The holiday is called "Passover," because it commemorates when the angel of death passed over the Hebrew people who had lamb's blood on their doors, according to the Bible and the Torah.