What Event Does Jewish Passover Recall And Celebrate?

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1. What event does the Jewish Passover recall and celebrate?
- The Jewish Passover is a holiday that celebrates the escape of the Jewish people out of Egypt. It is also said to refer to God passing over Egypt during the 10th plague and slaying all the first born male Egyptians.

2. Name at least two stories in the life of Christ that are set at Passover time.

3. Which three gospels imply that the Last Supper of Jesus was a Passover Meal?

- Matthew, Mark, and Luke were the three synoptic gospels that implied that the Last Supper of Jesus was the Passover Meal.

4. What does it mean to say that Jesus is the new Passover Lamb?

- The Passover lamb is the animal God had directed the Israelites to sacrifice in Egypt on the night that God slew the firstborn Egyptian boys. Jesus is described as the new Passover Lamb because of his blood being spilt on the cross as was the blood of the lamb to save them from death and bring new life to the Israelites.

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What freedom and deliverance do the death and resurrection of Jesus bring?
When Jesus sacrificed himself, he also removed sin from us. He made us pure by removing sin and forgiving the sin of those that committed sin against another person or towards themselves.
6. How and where did the very earliest Christians celebrate the ‘breaking of the bread.’
- The earliest reference to the Eucharist is a letter from Paul’s written around AD 55. The letter had been written before gospel texts. Paul’s words to the Corinthians give us evidence that the Eucharist, or of the ‘breaking of the bread’ as it was called in early times.

7. What were some of the changes that occurred in the celebration of the Eucharist after Constantine?
Constantine changed the time and place of the resurrection of Jesus, the time of the birth of Jesus, the spiritual way to become a Christian and the headquarters of the Christian from Jerusalem to Rome or

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