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1 Corinthians 5:7–8

Christ our Passover

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1 Corinthians 5:7–8

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5:7Purge the old leaven, so that you may become the new bread, for you are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover, has now been immolated

5:8And so, let us feast, not with the old leaven, not with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth

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Exodus 12:1–14 — The Passover lamb

Israel is spared through the blood of an unblemished lamb, and Paul explicitly identifies Christ as our Passover sacrifice. John's Passion adds Passover imagery, including the unbroken bones; its precise chronological relationship to the Synoptic accounts remains disputed.

source checked432 yearsPassover was already an old feast when Jesus kept it. The pattern was not invented after Easter.
Sources & review
  • scriptureExod 12
  • scripture1 Cor 5:7
  • scriptureJohn 19:14, 36
  • catechismCCC 608, 1339-1340
  • church fatherChapter 40