Passover (Hebrew Pesach) is the Jewish festival that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt — the night the angel of death “passed over” the Israelite homes marked with lamb’s blood while the firstborn of Egypt died (Exodus 12).
It is kept each spring with the Seder meal and the reading of the Haggadah, which retells the deliverance from slavery so that each generation recounts it as its own. Passover remains one of the most widely observed holidays in Jewish life.
Christian tradition sees the festival echoed in the death of Jesus: the Synoptic Gospels frame the Last Supper as a Passover meal, and early Christians read the Passover lamb as a type of Christ — “the Lamb of God.” The two readings sit side by side: the remembered deliverance of Israel, and the deliverance Christians find figured in it.
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