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Practice of Passover sacrifice by Temple Mount activists in Jerusalem, 2012.. The Passover sacrifice (Hebrew: קרבן פסח, romanized: Qorban Pesaḥ), also known as the Paschal lamb or the Passover lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates the Israelites to ritually slaughter on the evening of Passover, and eat lamb on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo.
Others follow the instructions that Jesus gave to his disciples at the Last Supper before he was crucified, and share bread (usually unleavened) and wine instead of roasted lamb. [4] In some traditions, the ceremony is combined with washing one another's feet, [4] as Jesus did for his disciples the night that he suffered (John 13:5–14).
Lamb bleeding into the Holy Chalice, carrying the vexillum Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, with gushing blood, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck, c. 1432. The title Lamb of God for Jesus appears in the Gospel of John, with the initial proclamation: "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" in John 1:29, the title reaffirmed the next day in John 1:36. [1]
The story of Passover is told in the Book of Exodus in the Torah—the body of Jewish religious teachings. According to the Hebrew Bible, God instructed Moses to take his people (the Israelites ...
Passover sacrifice (Korban Pesach), a Jewish animal sacrifice Lamb of God , a title for Jesus in Christianity Paschal lamb (heraldry) , a charge used in heraldry
The disciples ask where Jesus ("you") will eat the passover (Ancient Greek: ἵνα φάγῃς τὸ πάσχα, hina phagēs to pascha), [16] whereas in Luke's parallel text they ask where "we" will eat it (φάγωμεν, phagōmen). [17] Mark says this is on the first day of the Feast and the day the Jews sacrificed the Passover lamb.
Jesus retired into the desert immediately after his Baptism by John (Mark 1:12). It is thought He was probably coming from there when the Baptist gave this testimony: "Behold!" [1] [2] "The Lamb of God," refers to Isaiah 53:7 and Jeremiah 11:19, in which Christ is called a lamb. This was prefigured by the lamb offered up in daily sacrifices by ...
Quartodecimanism (from the Vulgate Latin quarta decima in Leviticus 23:5, [1] meaning fourteenth) is the name given to the practice of celebrating the death of Christ on the day of Passover, the 14th of Nisan according to biblical dating, on whatever day of the week it occurs.