PASSOVER IS WHEN?
PASSOVER IS WHEN? Guess what? Passover is this week – beginning at sundown on Friday, April 22 nd . How does that work? “Resurrection Sunday” was celebrated on March 27 th !!! Didn’t Jesus and His disciples gather for their last PASSOVER Seder on earth the night before Jesus was crucified? Shouldn’t Easter – “Resurrection Sunday” - be celebrated after Passover? Yes! In fact, Scripture teaches that Jesus was crucified ON the day of Passover. Matt. 26:2 – You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. He rose three days later. So – what happened this year? Have we celebrated Jesus’ resurrection prior to observing His crucifixion? The Jewish religious calendar is lunar with several leap years incorporated seven times over the course of a 19-year cycle. The leap years allow for Chanukah always to occur in the winter and for Passover always to occur in the spring. We, in the West, follow a sola