What Is Passover (Pasch) in the Bible?
Feast
The great feast in which the Jewish people remember how God brought them out of slavery in Egypt.
It can mean
- For the Jewish people: the feast of the going out from Egypt.
- For Christians: the Resurrection of Jesus, Easter Sunday. In Spanish, Easter and Passover have the same name: “Pascua.”
- In some countries: people also say “¡Felices Pascuas!” at Christmas.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 22:8
What the Bible says
Luke 22:8
And he sent Peter and John, saying: Go, and prepare for us the pasch, that we may eat.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “pascua”; Catechism 1169 and 1340