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The Bible’s answer. The Passover is the Jewish celebration of God’s liberating the Israelites from Egyptian slavery in 1513 B.C.E. God commanded the Israelites to remember that important event each year on the 14th day of the Jewish month Abib, which was later called Nisan. — Exodus 12:42; Leviticus 23:5.
2025: Saturday, April 12. 2026: Thursday, April 2. On April 12, 2025, Jehovah’s Witnesses around the world will observe the annual Memorial of Jesus Christ’s death. Find out more about this special event.
21 The Passover was an important event in the history of God’s people, and each one of us can learn many lessons from it. So even though the Passover was “a memorial” for the Jews, we as Christians should know about it and learn its valuable lessons, because “all Scripture is inspired of God.” — 2 Timothy 3:16.
Passover. Passover (Heb., peʹsach; Gr., paʹskha) was instituted the evening preceding the Exodus from Egypt. The first Passover was observed about the time of full moon, on the 14th day of Abib (later called Nisan) in the year 1513 B.C.E. This was thereafter to be celebrated annually.
This difference is one reason why the date on which Jehovah’s Witnesses observe the Memorial does not always coincide with the date used by modern Jews for the Passover. f See A New Translation of the Bible, by James Moffatt; The New Testament —A Translation in the Language of the People, by Charles B. Williams; and The Original New ...
God told them: “This day must serve as a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to Jehovah throughout your generations. As a statute to time indefinite you should celebrate it.”. The celebration on the 14th was to be followed by a seven-day festival. Nisan 14 was the day of the actual Passover, but the name Passover could ...
Although the Passover did not foreshadow the Memorial, certain features of the Passover have meaning for us. For example, the apostle Paul called Jesus “our Passover lamb.” (1Co 5:7) Just as the lamb’s blood on the doorframes saved lives, Jesus’ blood saves lives. (Ex 12:12, 13) Also, not a bone of the Passover lamb was broken.
The Passover was a celebration held just once a year, on the 14th day of the Jewish month Nisan. To calculate that date, the Jews evidently waited for the spring equinox. This is the day when there are approximately 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness.
3 The date of the Lord’s Evening Meal, which corresponds to the Passover, will be after sundown on April 14, 2014. That will be a special day for true Christians and interested people. That will be a special day for true Christians and interested people.
In early fall. We can estimate when Jesus was born by counting backward from his death on Passover, Nisan 14 in the spring of the year 33 C.E. (John 19:14-16) Jesus was about 30 years old when he began his three-and-a-half-year ministry, so he was born in the early fall of 2 B.C.E.— Luke 3:23.