Skip to main content
Kingdom Report

Know the season. Receive biblical rhythms of grace. Pray with understanding.

On this page
<nav id="TableOfContents" aria-label="On this page"> <ul> <li><a href="#at-a-glance">At a glance</a></li> <li><a href="#start-with-scripture">Start with Scripture</a></li> <li><a href="#god-brought-us-out">God brought us out</a></li> <li><a href="#living-jewish-passover">Living Jewish Passover</a></li> <li><a href="#jesus-in-the-passover-story">Jesus in the Passover story</a></li> <li><a href="#remember-redemption-and-walk-in-freedom">Remember redemption and walk in freedom</a></li> <li><a href="#practice-it-together">Practice it together</a></li> <li><a href="#scripture-concordance">Scripture concordance</a></li> <li><a href="#keep-following-the-spring-story">Keep following the spring story</a></li> </ul> </nav>

Appointed-time guide

Passover / Pesach

A Scripture-first Christian guide to Passover: the Exodus, Jewish context, Jesus and the New Testament, and gracious ways to remember God's deliverance.

Biblical appointed time

Scripture anchor: Exodus 12

Hebrew month:Nisan

At a glance

Passover, or , begins with God’s rescue of Israel from slavery in Egypt. God hears the cry of His people, judges Egypt, brings Israel out, and commands the story to be remembered across generations.

For Christians, Passover also opens the Jewish and biblical setting of Jesus’ final meal, crucifixion, and the New Testament’s language of redemption. The Exodus story and the Gospel story belong close together, and each becomes clearer when we let Scripture tell it fully.

Start with Scripture

Read Exodus 12:1-28, Exodus 13:3-10, Deuteronomy 16:1-8, Luke 22:7-20, John 19, and 1 Corinthians 5:7-8.

The establishes Passover in Israel’s covenant life. The Gospels place Jesus’ passion in the Passover season, and Paul explicitly calls Christ our Passover.

God brought us out

In Exodus 12, Israel is still enslaved. Each household prepares a lamb, marks the doorway with blood, eats in readiness, and waits for the night God will act. The feast becomes an annual memorial of deliverance.

The repeated command to tell the children matters. Biblical remembrance is active: God brought us out. A household remembers so gratitude, identity, worship, and trust can pass from one generation to the next.

Passover therefore gives Christian families a strong question to carry: What works of God must we refuse to forget?

Living Jewish Passover

Passover remains one of the central festivals of Jewish life. The first nights are commonly marked by a , a structured household meal that retells the Exodus through Scripture, questions, symbolic foods, blessing, and song.

The seder has developed across centuries of Jewish worship and family life. Learning its shape can help Christians understand how deeply the command to remember has been carried from generation to generation.

If you are invited to a Jewish seder, receive the hospitality as a guest and learn from the living tradition. In a Christian household, you can honor the same biblical story through Scripture, testimony, gratitude, prayer, and a shared meal while being clear about the tradition you are receiving from.

Jesus in the Passover story

The Gospels place Jesus’ final days in Jerusalem in the Passover season. Luke records Jesus sharing the Passover with His disciples. John repeatedly marks the approaching feast as the passion narrative unfolds. Paul then says with striking clarity, “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Passover gives Christian readers a rich vocabulary for Jesus: deliverance, redemption, covenant, freedom, remembrance, sacrifice, and the Lamb. The Gospel does not detach us from Israel’s story; it teaches us to see Jesus within the Scriptures and festival world God had already given.

Follow the wider sequence in Jesus and the Biblical Feasts .

Remember redemption and walk in freedom

Bring your attention to Jesus. Thank Him for redemption. Tell the Exodus story accurately. Tell your own testimonies of His sustaining and rescuing grace. Pray for people who still live under oppression, addiction, exploitation, fear, or bondage.

Then ask where freedom needs to become practical. Is there an old pattern that needs repentance? A relationship that needs truth? A habit that keeps reopening a door Christ has called you to leave? Let remembrance lead toward obedience.

Practice it together

  • Children: retell the Exodus in simple language and ask, “What did God rescue His people from?” Let them name something they are thankful Jesus has done.
  • Teens: read Exodus 12 and Luke 22 side by side. Ask what freedom in Christ changes in ordinary choices, relationships, and habits.
  • Adults: share a meal without rushing. Tell one concrete story of God’s deliverance or faithfulness and pray for someone who still needs freedom.
  • Elders: carry the memory forward. Tell a younger person where you have seen the Lord sustain, rescue, forgive, or provide.

A simple Christian household practice can be: read Exodus 12, share a meal, thank God for deliverance, speak testimony, pray for people under oppression, and look to Jesus in the Passover story.

Scripture concordance

  • Exodus 12:1-28 — the first Passover
  • Exodus 13:3-10 — remembrance and teaching children
  • Deuteronomy 16:1-8 — Passover in Israel’s worship
  • 2 Chronicles 30 — Hezekiah’s Passover
  • Ezra 6:19-22 — Passover after the return from exile
  • Luke 22:7-20 — Jesus and His disciples at Passover
  • John 1:29 — Jesus called the Lamb of God
  • John 19:14-36 — Jesus’ crucifixion in Passover context
  • 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 — Christ and Passover
  • 1 Peter 1:18-19 — redeemed with the precious blood of Christ

Keep following the spring story

Continue into Unleavened Bread , Firstfruits , and Counting the Omer . Passover begins a spring journey of deliverance, remembrance, holiness, harvest, patient formation, and ultimately Pentecost.

Try Remember Jesus through the Passover story for a simple household practice built around Scripture, gratitude, and testimony.