I really need help with the meaning of good friday and the passover!?

Question

I need to know how they are related to easter when they became and why! Thanks in advance. NEEDED ASAP!!!

Answer 1

Passover has NOTHING to do with Easter. Passover is a JEWISH holiday, and Easter and Good Friday are CHRISTIAN holidays. Passover is not related to the other 2.

Answer 2

Passover is the commemoration of God's covenant with His chosen people, the Jews. He told them they they would know His love and they would be free to leave Egypt if they slaughtered a young lamb or goat and smeared the blood of the animal around the lintel (or doorway). They were to cook the animal and share with family and neighbors and prepare to flee the next day. That night the Angel of Death would visit the homes in Egypt and the oldest child would die except in the houses whose lintels were smeared with the lamb's blood.

The Lord told them that Passover should be celebrated every year to remember how much He loved them and how His people were freed from slavery in Egypt.

Jesus, was a Jew and it happens that He was celebrating the Feast of Passover with His Apostles which was His Last Supper on Holy Thursday. The next day, Good Friday he was Crucified. He rose from the dead on Sunday. This is Easter Sunday to Christians who are the "followers of Christ".

As you can see, there is definitely a relation between Passover and Good Friday and Easter. Passover was God's Covenant with His people, the Jews. And Easter is God's promise of the Resurrection, Life Everlasting. These are both very important and beautiful Holidays for Jews and Christians alike.

Answer 3

Passover is a Jewish holiday. It begins on the 15th day of Nisan (on the Hebrew calendar), which falls between nightfall April 2nd and nightfall April 10th. Passover commemorates the exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt. In Israel, Passover is a 7-day holiday, with the first and last days celebrated as a full festival (involving abstention from work, special prayer services and holiday meals). In the Jewish diaspora outside Israel, the holiday is traditionally celebrated for 8 days (although Reform Jews celebrate for 7 days), with the first two days and last two days celebrated as full festivals.



Good Friday is the Friday before Easter or Pascha. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus at Calvary. This year, it is on April 6, 2007.

Good Friday is a holy day observed by some Christians. Special prayer services are often held on this day with readings from the Gospel giving accounts of the events leading up to the crucifixion. Mainstream Christian churches view Christ's crucifixion as a voluntary and vicarious act, and one by which, along with resurrection on the third day, death itself was conquered.



Easter celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus as the basis for the salvation of mankind. Easter this year will be April 8th. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring.



Jews celebrate the Passover (commemorating their freedom from slavery to the ancient Egyptians).

Good Friday falls on the Passover weekend, and that is the day that Jesus died on the cross.

Easter is the day that Jesus rose from the dead (on that Sunday).

So Christians celebrate Good Friday and Easter.

But, because Jews don't believe Jesus to be the Saviour, they don't celebrate the latter two holidays.



Hope that helped you out.

Answer 4

Some very good answers.



Although you'd be hard-pressed to find a priest and a rabbi who would agree that there is any connection between the two holidays.



Personally, from my study of religion and history, it seems clear that the early Christians adopted and modified various pagan rituals in order to convert non-believers.

For that matter, until around the 3rd Century, the Christian Sabbath was the same time as the Jewish Sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday).



So, it seems very convenient that Jesus was celebrating Passover during the time of his arrest, torture and death.

Unfortunately, over the centuries, this was a prime time to persecute Jews.

Many of the historic pogroms against innocent Jews were done during Passover...and around Easter.



But I digress.

The point is, the blend of two religions, taking certain aspects of the older (Jewish) one in order to satisfy prospective members in the new (Christian) one.

Answer 5

The Passover is what Jesus tells us to celebrate for his remembrance not easter.Luke(22:14-30) and Jesus was not buried on good friday like they say if he was in the ground 3 days and 3 nights like he said,if he went in the grave on friday and rose on Sunday that is not 3 full days. Easter is a Pagan holiday to celebrate fertility

Answer 6

There is a no connection between Passover and Easter. Ones a Jewish holiday and ones a Cristian holiday.

Answer 7

After Jesus died on the cross He was placed in the tomb on Good Friday, to rise again on Easter Sunday.

The Passover celebrated the Jews deliverance from Egypt when the angel of death passed over those who had blood on the doorpost.

Answer 8

Good Friday is when Jesus of Nazereth was execulted via crucifiction by the Romans. Easter is the Sunday following that he (as Christians would believe-and there is some evidence in favour of) was raised from the dead.

These events happened to occur during the Jewish feast of Passover.

Passover is to recall the 10th (and final) plague in Egypt that happened during the Exodus (Jews leaving Egyptian slavery in late 12th Century CE). The 10th plague in question is the death of every first born except the Jewish 1st born-they were passed over by the Angel of Death (or slow moving green mist thing according to Cecil B Demill)

Answer 9

Passover has nothing to do with Easter. Easter has to do with Ishtar; the Egyptian fertility goddess.

Passover has to do with the Israelites running from the Egyptian Pharoah & passing through the Red Sea in their escape from slavery.

Answer 10

The passover ceremony was started by the Israelites of the Bible to help them remember how God delivered them from the Egyptians, who were keeping them against their will in slavery. It also pointed forward to when the Messiah would come and free them up from their captors, permanently. Christians to day mostly do not observe Passover, but instead they celebrate communion which commemorates how Christ's died to save they from their lives of bondage to sin.

Answer 11

Roberta T. & Marmylade, you answered this question so well. I was pleased to be able to read a post that accuratly connected the Jewish faith with the Christian faith. For anyone who is of the Christian faith, the Jewish faith is the first part of our history.



Thank you for your the time you took to write!!!

Answer 12

well passover is related to easter becuz in tha new testament it states that Jesus is our passover (for Christians, Catholics & Christ Followers).



good friday is tha day that Jesus died on tha cross.



after he died on tha cross he descended to heaven and on tha third day he rose again. and tha day he rose again is easter.



and he will come again to bring us true believers in him to heaven & tha ppl that weren't brought up in believing in him (becuz if they weren't brought up to believe in him, they r not held accountable). peace

Answer 13

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