Passover
42 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
21 sections
- Christ Called “Our Passover”
- Design of
- Institution of
- Jesus Crucified at the Time of
- Jesus in the Temple Courtyard at the Time of
- Observation of, Renewed by Hezekiah
- Observation of, Renewed by Josiah
- Observation of, Renewed by the Israelites Upon Entering Canaan
- Observation of, Renewed: After the Return from Babylonian Captivity
- Observed at the Place Designated by God
- Observed by Jesus
- Observed with Unleavened Bread (No Yeast)
- Penalty for Neglecting to Observe
- Peter Imprisoned at the Time of
- Prisoner Released At, by the Romans
- Re-Instituted by Ezekiel
- Special Passover, for Those Who Were Unclean, or on a Journey, to be Held in the Second Month
- Strangers Authorized to Celebrate
- The Lamb Killed by Levites, for Those Who Were Ceremonially Unclean
- The Lamb of, a Type of Christ
- The Lord's Supper Ordained At
Christ Called “Our Passover”
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Design of
- Exodus 12:21–28 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb. …
Institution of
- Exodus 12:3–49 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household. …
- Exodus 23:15–18 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear …
- Exodus 34:18 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- Leviticus 23:4–8 These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. …
- Numbers 9:2–5 “The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time. …
- Numbers 9:13–14 But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the …
- Numbers 28:16–25 The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover. …
- Deuteronomy 16:1–8 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night. …
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- Psalm 81:3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
- Psalm 81:5 He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language:
Jesus Crucified at the Time of
- Matthew 26:2 “You know that the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.”
- Mark 14:1–2 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him. …
- John 18:28 Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
Jesus in the Temple Courtyard at the Time of
- Luke 2:41–50 Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. …
Observation of, Renewed by Hezekiah
- 2 Chronicles 30:1 Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
Observation of, Renewed by Josiah
- 2 Kings 23:22–23 No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah. …
- 2 Chronicles 35:1 Then Josiah kept the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites …
Observation of, Renewed by the Israelites Upon Entering Canaan
- Joshua 5:10–11 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover. …
Observation of, Renewed: After the Return from Babylonian Captivity
- Ezra 6:19–20 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the exiles kept the Passover. …
Observed at the Place Designated by God
- Deuteronomy 16:5–7 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is giving you. …
Observed by Jesus
- Matthew 26:17–20 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” …
- Luke 22:15 And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.
- John 2:13 When the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- John 2:23 While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- John 13:1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
Observed with Unleavened Bread (No Yeast)
- Exodus 12:8 They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Exodus 12:15–20 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. …
- Exodus 13:3 So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:6 For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- Exodus 23:15 You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear …
- Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
- Numbers 9:11 Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
- Numbers 28:17 On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- Deuteronomy 16:3–4 You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste— so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you …
- Mark 14:12 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- Luke 22:7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- Acts 12:3 And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Penalty for Neglecting to Observe
- Numbers 9:13 But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the …
Peter Imprisoned at the Time of
- Acts 12:3 And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Prisoner Released At, by the Romans
- Matthew 27:15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.
- Mark 15:6 Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.
- Luke 23:16–17 Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.” …
- John 18:39 But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
Re-Instituted by Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 45:21–24 On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten. …
Special Passover, for Those Who Were Unclean, or on a Journey, to be Held in the Second Month
- Numbers 9:6–12 But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day …
- 2 Chronicles 30:2–4 For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month, …
Strangers Authorized to Celebrate
- Exodus 12:48–49 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no …
- Numbers 9:14 If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
The Lamb Killed by Levites, for Those Who Were Ceremonially Unclean
- 2 Chronicles 30:17 Since there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 35:3–11 To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your …
- Ezra 6:20 All the priests and Levites had purified themselves and were ceremonially clean. And the Levites slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, for their priestly brothers, and for themselves.
The Lamb of, a Type of Christ
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
The Lord's Supper Ordained At
- Matthew 26:26–28 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” …
- Mark 14:12–25 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?” …
- Luke 22:7–20 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed. …
Related topics
The Feast of the PassoverCommunion of the Lord's Supper
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.