passover

As this happened at the time when the feast of unleavened bread was celebrated, which we call the passover, the principal men among the Jews left the country, and fled into Egypt.

Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709

Well, passover is coming up, you know .. that's the holiday with all the plagues, so don't feel too bad.

Next Come Locusts kittenpie 2006

The word passover might sound to the same sense in those words of his also,

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The name passover was given to the feast because the Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites without slaying their firstborn, while the Egyptians were cut off, Ex 12: 13.

Barnes New Testament Notes 1949

Christ our passover is sacrificed for us (1 Cor.v. 7), and it follows, therefore let us keep the feast.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

But our gospel-passover is celebrated with the release of prisoners, by him who hath power on earth to forgive sins.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Some commentators however, and those of no mean note, for example Vitringa and Lowth, Dathe and Rosenmuller, have raised doubts as to the propriety of the sense conveyed by the word passover, in explication of the origi - nal term nD2.

Discourses and dissertations on the scriptural doctrines of atonement & sacrifice : and on the principal arguments advance, and the mode of reasoning employed, by the opponents of those doctrines as held by the established Church ; with an appendix, containing some strictures on Mr. Belsham's account of the Unitarian scheme, in his review of Mr. Wilberforce's treatise Magee, William, 1766-1831 1812

That therefore which John saith, that "the Jews would not go into the judgment hall lest they should be polluted, but that they might eat the passover," is to be understood of that Chagigah of the fifteenth day, not of the paschal lamb: for that also is called the passover, Deuteronomy 16: 2;

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

And by the passover were the people taught not only the mercy of their present deliverance,

A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God 1616-1683 1965