The Greek word Πάσχα and hence the Latin form Pascha is derived from Hebrew Pesach () meaning the festival of Passover.

Jews have two holiday seasons: the Spring Feasts of Pesach ( Passover ) and Shavuot ( Weeks, called Pentecost in Greek ); and the Fall Feasts of Rosh Hashanah ( Head of the Year ), Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement ), Sukkot ( Tabernacles ), and Shemini Atzeret ( Eighth Day of Assembly ).

* Passover ( Hebrew: Pesach, פסח ) ( first days ) — 15 ( and outside Israel 16 ) Nisan

* Shevi ' i shel Pesach or Aḥaron shel Pesach (" last days of Passover ") are also a holiday commemorating K ' riat Yam Suf ( the Passage of the Red Sea ): 21 ( and outside Israel 22 ) Nisan

Passover ( Hebrew, Yiddish: פ ֶּ ס ַ ח Pesach, Tiberian:, Modern Hebrew: / ˈpesaχ / Pesah, Pesakh, Yiddish: Peysekh, Paysakh, Paysokh ) is a Jewish festival.

The term Pesach () may also refer to the lamb or goat which was designated as the Passover sacrifice ( called the Korban Pesach in Hebrew ).

In subsequent years, during the existence of the Tabernacle and later the Temple in Jerusalem, the Passover offering ( Hebrew korban Pesach ) was eaten during the Passover Seder on the 15th of Nisan.

The Seder Korban Pesach, a set of scriptural and Rabbinic passages dealing with the Passover sacrifice, is customarily recited during or after the Mincha ( afternoon prayer ) service on the 14th on Nisan.

The story of the Korban Pesach is also retold at the Passover Seder, meaning order, and the symbolic food which represents it on the Seder Plate is usually a roasted lamb shankbone or chicken wing.

When the Temple in Jerusalem was standing, the focus of the Passover festival was the Passover sacrifice ( Hebrew korban Pesach ) also known as the " Paschal Lamb ").

Today, in the absence of the Temple, the mitzvah of the Korban Pesach is memorialized in the Seder Korban Pesach, recited in the afternoon of Nisan 14, and in the form of symbolic food placed on the Passover Seder Plate, which is usually a roasted shankbone.

Shvi ' i shel Pesach ( שביעי של פסח " seventh of Passover ") is another full Jewish holiday, with special prayer services and festive meals.

Outside the Land of Israel in the Jewish diaspora, Shvi ' i shel Pesach is celebrated on both the seventh and eighth days of Passover.

The " Second Passover " ( Pesach Sheni ) on the 14th of Iyar in the Hebrew Calendar is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ( Numbers 9: 6-13 ) as a make-up day for people who were unable to offer the pesach sacrifice at the appropriate time due to ritual impurity or distance from Jerusalem.

Many have prayers for weekdays, Shabbat, and the three Biblical festivals, Sukkot ( the feast of Tabernacles ), Shavuot ( the feast of weeks ) and Pesach ( Passover ).

# We eat only roasted meat because that is how the Pesach / Passover lamb is prepared during sacrifice in the Temple at Jerusalem.

This differs from Passover ( Pesach ), where the last day ( Diaspora: last two days ) is / are considered part of the same festival.

Polycarp and his Church of Smyrna celebrated the crucifixion on the fourteenth day of Nisan, which coincides with Pesach ( or Passover ) regardless of which day of the week upon this date fell, while the Roman Church celebrated the Pasch on Sunday — the weekday of Jesus ' resurrection.

* Pesach ( Passover ) – 14 Nisan / Abib ( sacrifice of a lamb ), 15 Nisan / Abib ( Passover seder )

Many Jews consider a portion of the 49-day period of the counting of the omer between Passover and Shavuot to be a time of semi-mourning and instrumental music is not allowed during that time.

Kosher for Passover Coca-Cola sold in the U. S. around the Jewish holiday also uses sucrose rather than HFCS and is also highly sought after by people who prefer the original taste.

An egg is one of the components of a traditional Seder plate, a traditional centerpiece of the Passover meal.

The tradition of hiding easter eggs for children to find is also similar to another Passover tradition, whereby the head of the household hides a piece of matza ( the " afikomen ") during the meal.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar.

Easter is linked to the Passover and Exodus from Egypt recorded in the Old Testament through the Last Supper and crucifixion that preceded the resurrection.

One interpretation of the Gospel of John is that Jesus, as the Passover lamb, was crucified at roughly the same time as the Passover lambs were being slain in the temple, on the afternoon of Nisan 14.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

In determining the date of the Jewish Passover a lunisolar calendar is also used, and because Easter always falls on a Sunday it usually falls up to a week after the first day of Passover ( Nisan 15 in the Hebrew calendar ).

This means that it is a lunation later than Jewish Passover in two years out of nineteen, years 8 and 19 of the Christian cycle.

Furthermore, because the Julian calendar's lunar age is now about four to five days behind the mean lunations, Julian Easter always follows the start of Passover.

The supposed " after Passover " rule is called the Zonaras proviso, after Joannes Zonaras, the Byzantine canon lawyer who may have been the first to formulate it.

Moses explains the meaning of the Passover: it is for Israel's salvation from Egypt, so that the Israelites will not be required to sacrifice their own sons, but to redeem them.

In Judaism, Elijah's name is invoked at the weekly Havdalah ritual that marks the end of Shabbat, and Elijah is invoked in other Jewish customs, among them the Passover seder and the Brit milah ( ritual circumcision ).

The Biblical mandate for the celebrations of Passover is in 23: 4-7:

A Hebrew translation of the song is a common element in the Passover seder in Israel.

There is a broad disagreement over chronology between Matthew, Mark and Luke on one hand and John on the other: all four agree that Jesus ' public ministry began with an encounter with John the Baptist, but Matthew, Mark and Luke follow this with an account of teaching and healing in Galilee, then a trip to Jerusalem where there is an incident in the Temple, climaxing with the crucifixion on the day of the Passover holiday.

Hence, Mark's explicit claim that the Last Supper was a Passover meal is contraindicated by his statement that Joseph of Arimathea bought a shroud for Jesus on Good Friday ; which would not have been possible if it were a festival day.

At the start of his ministry Jesus is in Jerusalem for Passover, then he is in Galilee for the following Passover, before going up to Jerusalem again for his death at a third Passover.

Matzo or matzah (; with many other spellings in English, plural matzot ) is an unleavened bread traditionally eaten by Jews during the week-long Passover holiday, when eating chametz — bread and other food which is made with leavened grain — is forbidden according to Jewish law.

* Pentecost – the feast of 50 days after Passover ; the church celebrates this day " in much the same manner in which the early church observed it in Acts 2 ..." This is also the time of their General Assembly, in which members from their churches travel to Cleveland, Tennessee for a week-long gathering and special service schedule.

* Passover ( Hebrew: פסח ) a Jewish holiday

John, by contrast, puts the Temple incident very early in Jesus ' ministry, has several trips to Jerusalem, and puts the crucifixion immediately before the Passover holiday, on the day when the lambs for the Passover meal were being sacrificed in Temple.

Matzo is eaten by Jews as an obligation during the Passover Seder meal ; during the rest of the holiday its consumption is optional, though customary, as only unleavened bread may be eaten.

At the Passover seder, it is customary to eat matzah made of flour and water only ; matzah containing eggs, wine, or fruit juice in addition to water is not acceptable for use at the seder, although acceptable during the remaining days of the holiday.

Chocolate-covered matzah is a favorite among children, although some consider it " enriched matza " and will not eat it during the Passover holiday.

In Israel, Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the first and last days observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work, special prayer services, and holiday meals ; the intervening days are known as Chol HaMoed (" Weekdays of the Festival ").

Should more chametz actually be found in the house during the Passover holiday, it must be burnt as soon as possible.

A symbol of the Passover holiday is matzo, an unleavened flatbread made solely from flour and water which is continually worked from mixing through baking, so that it is not allowed to rise.

Handmade shmura matzoIn the weeks before Passover, matzos are prepared for holiday consumption.

Like the holiday of Sukkot, the intermediary days of Passover are known as Chol HaMoed ( festival weekdays ) and are imbued with a semi-festive status.

Beginning on the second night of Passover, the 16th day of Nisan, Jews begin the practice of the Counting of the Omer, a nightly reminder of the approach of the holiday of Shavuot 50 days hence.

* Passover ( Christian holiday )

Kosher pizza locations must also close during the holiday of Passover, when no bread products other than matza are allowed in kosher locations.

Most traditional Jews also read these verses of the Song on Shabbat Chol HaMoed of Passover, or on the seventh day of the holiday, when the Song of the sea is also read.

The Talmud refers to Shavuot as Atzeret ( Hebrew: עצרת, literally, " refraining " or " holding back "), referring to the prohibition against work on this holiday and to the conclusion of the holiday and season of Passover.