Bible Cross References
passover
John 2:23
While Jesus was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in him as they saw the miracles he performed.
John 5:1
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.
John 6:4
The time for the Passover Festival was near.
John 11:55
The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival.
Exodus 12:6-14
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Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.
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The people are to take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and above the doors of the houses in which the animals are to be eaten.
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That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled, but eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.
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You must not leave any of it until morning; if any is left over, it must be burned.
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You are to eat it quickly, for you are to be dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the LORD.
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"On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
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The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.
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You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."
Numbers 28:16-25
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The Passover Festival in honor of the LORD is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day a religious festival begins which lasts seven days, during which only bread prepared without yeast is to be eaten.
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On the first day of the festival you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.
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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.
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Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering.
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In the same way, for seven days offer to the LORD a food offering, an odor pleasing to him. Offer this in addition to the daily burnt offering and wine offering.
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Meet for worship on the seventh day and do no work.
Deuteronomy 16:1-8
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"Honor the LORD your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.
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Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the LORD your God.
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When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread---it will be called the bread of suffering---so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.
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For seven days no one in your land is to have any yeast in the house; and the meat of the animal killed on the evening of the first day must be eaten that same night.
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"Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship---and nowhere else in the land that the LORD your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.
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Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.
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For the next six days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, and on the seventh day assemble to worship the LORD your God, and do no work on that day.
Deuteronomy 16:16-8
Luke 2:41
Every year the parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.