"Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." (1 Corinthians 5:6-8, KJV)

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It was the custom of Yeshua (Jesus) to go to Jerusalem every year for the Passover. The Bible even records the story of Jesus as a child traveling with his family to Jerusalem for the Passover. The Passover was the first of the three feasts God commanded the Israelites to celebrate throughout their generations. It commemorated the deliverance by God from their slavery in Egypt, specifically the sacrifice of the unblemished lamb. For God said "The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt" (Exodus 12:13). It was the blood of the lamb that was applied that symbolically saved them from death. It showed they believed and had faith in God and in His power to save.

It was during a Passover seder with His disciples that Yeshua proclaimed that the meal represented Himself and that He was instituting the New Covenant, which was foretold by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. (Luke 22:15)

Yeshua was crucified at the exact time the Passover lambs were being slaughtered for the Passover meal, on the day preceding the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the fourth day of the week, before sundown. After sundown the Jewish people ate the Passover meal. The next day was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a high day, a special Holy Day Sabbath, the fifth day of the week. God resurrected Yeshua on the third day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the seventh day Sabbath before sundown.

Yeshua the Messiah is the eternal and perfect unblemished sacrifice sent into the world by God to save us. Yeshua, our Passover, ushered in through the shedding of His precious blood, a new, better and everlasting covenant.