Bible Verses about โpassoverโ
The Bible contains 42 verses about passover across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โAs they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."โ
โfor this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.โ
โAs they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."โ
โHe took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it,โ
โHe said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.โ
โPurge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.โ
โHe took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.โ
โMost certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God."โ
โTherefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.โ
โHe said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,โ
โAs they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, one of you will betray me--he who eats with me."โ
โThey began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"โ
โHe answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.โ
โFor the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."โ
โOn the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?"โ
โHe sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,โ
โand wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'โ
โHe will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Get ready for us there."โ
โHis disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.โ
โWhen it was evening he came with the twelve.โ
โYou shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out from Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty.โ
โ"'These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which you shall proclaim in their appointed season.โ
โYou shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.โ
โ"'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.โ
โOn the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to Yahweh. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.โ
โThey shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.โ
โIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh's Passover.โ
โIn the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.โ
โBut you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"โ
โ"'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"โ
โIn the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.โ
โSeven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.โ
โIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.โ
โYou shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"โ
โThen Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.โ
โFor Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.โ
โYou shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.โ
โIt shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.โ
โIt will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'โ
โthat you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.โ
โThe children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.โ
โYou shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.โ
