Bible verses about Feast of the Passover, The
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)

Ordained by God Exodus 12:1,2 Commenced the fourteenth of the first month at even Exodus 12:2,6,18; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3 Lasted seven days Exodus 12:15; Leviticus 23:6 CALLED THE Passover Numbers 9:5; John 2:23 Jew's passover John 2:13; 11:55 Lord's passover Exodus 12:11,27 Feast of unleavened bread Mark 14:1; Luke 22:1 Days of unleavened bread Acts 12:3; 20:6 All males to appear at Exodus 23:17; Deuteronomy 16:16 Paschal lamb eaten first day of Exodus 12:6,8 Unleavened bread eaten at Exodus 12:15; Deuteronomy 16:3 LEAVEN Not to be in their houses during Exodus 12:19 Not to be in any of their quarters Exodus 13:7; Deuteronomy 16:4 Nothing with, to be eaten Exodus 12:20 Punishment for eating Exodus 12:15,19 First and last days of, holy convocations Exodus 12:16; Numbers 28:18,25 Sacrifices during Leviticus 23:8; Numbers 28:19-24 The first sheaf of barley harvest offered the day after the Sabbath in Leviticus 23:10-14 TO COMMEMORATE THE Passing over the first-born Exodus 12:12,13 Deliverance of Israel from bondage of Egypt Exodus 12:17,42; 13:9; Deuteronomy 16:3 To be perpetually observed during the Mosaic age Exodus 12:14; 13:10 Children to be taught the nature and design of Exodus 12:26,27; 13:8 Purification necessary to the due observance of II Chronicles 30:15-19; John 11:55 Might be kept in the second month by those who were unclean at the appointed time Numbers 9:6-11; II Chronicles 30:2,3,15 No uncircumcised person to keep Exodus 12:43,45 Strangers and servants when circumcised might keep Exodus 12:44,48 Neglect of, punished with death Numbers 9:13 Improper keeping of, punished II Chronicles 30:18,20 REMARKABLE CELEBRATIONS OF On leaving Egypt Exodus 12:28,50 In the wilderness of Sinai Numbers 9:3-5 On entering the land of promise Joshua 5:10,11 In Hezekiah's reign II Chronicles 30:1 In Josiah's reign II Kings 23:22,23; II Chronicles 35:1,18 After the captivity Ezra 6:19,20 Before the death of Christ Luke 22:15 Moses kept through faith Hebrews 11:28 Christ always observed Matthew 26:17-20; Luke 22:15; John 2:13,23 The people of Jerusalem lent their rooms to strangers for Luke 22:11,12 The Lord's Supper instituted at Matthew 26:26-28 Custom of releasing a prisoner at Matthew 27:15; Luke 23:16,17 The Sabbath in, a high day John 19:31 The day before the Sabbath in, called the preparation John 19:14,31 Illustrative of redemption through Christ I Corinthians 5:7,8