John's gospel is forcing us, dramatically at least, through the storytelling mode, to think of Jesus as a passover lamb. Jesus doesn't eat a passover meal, Jesus is the passover meal, at least ...
Second, we have the Passover, the most significant event ... We know from the lips of John the Baptist that Jesus is, “…the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
Jesus was born and brought up Jewish ... their sins forgiven through the blood that was shed. For the first Passover, a lamb or young goat was killed and its blood put on the door frames of ...
would fulfill the last prophecy in the Old Testament’s last two sentences (Malachi 4:5-6), gave his ephod to Mary to wrap Jesus in once he was born: he knew Mary was soon to give birth to the Messiah.
During the Last Supper, Jesus offers himself as the Passover sacrifice, the sacrificial lamb, and teaches that every ordained priest is to follow the same sacrifice in the exact same way.