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Passover was first
observed around
1,400 BC, when
the night before
the exodus from
Egypt, each
Israelite family
killed a lamb and
put its blood over
the doorposts of
their house so
that the angel of
death would
"pass over" during the final plague judgement.
On the Jewish
Feast of
Passover, the
15th day of the
Hebrew month of
Nisan, around 30-
33 AD, Jesus was
crucified as the
"Lamb of God."
The Apostle Paul wrote: "For even Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us." (I Corinthians 5:7)
The lamb is considered the most innocent of animals.
The Gospel of John recorded when John the Baptist
saw Jesus, he exclaimed:
