Passover and Easter always arrive at the same season—this year, just days apart—and that is no accident. In fact, some of Christianity’s core ideas, images and theological convictions can be ...

This timing ties Jesus’ zeal to consuming the Passover lamb in Exodus 12. In the original Passover, the lamb was sacrificed and eaten as a sign of covenant participation.

Jesus was Jewish and had a Passover meal with his followers the day before his crucifixion on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. The last supper was actually a Seder, Boulouque said.

The Passover Seder is irreducibly a Jewish ritual. Reimagining or co-opting the Seder is not a good way for Christians to honor Jesus’ Jewish identity. The values that Jesus practices as he observes ...

Then, Jesus celebrated Passover on Thursday, approximately 1476 years after the original “pass over” (Mark 14:12-26). The “Last Supper” was a Passover seder attended by Jesus’s 12 Jewish ...

In 2019, Passover and Easter converge, as they commonly do. This year, Good Friday falls on the first night of Passover, April 19, and Easter falls on the second full day of Passover on April 21.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Professor Andrew McGowan, Dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, about theological and liturgical intersections between the Easter and Passover holidays.

Easter and Passover are both springtime holidays, ... Madden said there is some discussion among scholars about the Last Supper, which Christians believe was consumed by Jesus and his disciples.

Passover concludes this Sunday, which is also Easter. During the religious holidays, Christian and Jewish families respectively celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the Israelites ...