Easter!
On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn - both men and animals - and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD - a lasting ordinance.
When the hour came, Jesus and His disciples reclined at the table. And He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfilment in the kingdom of God.” After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after the supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is a new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.”
Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast - as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth. The woman said, “I know that Messiah”, (called Christ) “Is coming. When He comes He will explain everything to us.” The Jesus declared, “I who speaks to you am he.”
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Easter, is now interwoven into the Passover (Last Supper), Death and, Resurrection of Jesus. The coming of a Saviour, His suffering, the Passover, Crucifixion and, Resurrection are fundamental tenets of Christianity. Etymology of Easter: derived from Eastre, Ostara, Eostre; a pagan goddess. (Note: Let us be mindful of how pagan ideas can be “dressed up” to appear to be a part of Christianity; easter eggs, easter bunnies and the “goddess of renewal/fertility” are associated with this time of the year (springtime) and some of which can appear to be valid Christian themes!)