Pesach comes from the root peh-samekh-chet, meaning to pass over, to skip, to spare. On the night HaShem struck the firstborn of Egypt, He passed over the houses whose doorposts were covered with the blood of a lamb. That is Pesach. Not a memorial dinner. A moment when death saw the blood and moved past. The lamb was not punished in place of the firstborn. The lamb's blood was a covering, a marker, a sign that this household belongs to HaShem. Exodus 12:13 says it: "When I see the blood, u'fasachti, I will pass over you."

Yeshua was crucified on Pesach. Not near it. Not around the same season. On it. He was the Lamb of God (John 1:29), and He died at the exact hour the Passover lambs were being slaughtered in the Temple. Sha'ul says it without metaphor: "Messiah, our Pesach, has been sacrificed" (1 Corinthians 5:7). The entire Passover seder, the lamb, the unleavened bread, the bitter herbs, the four cups, is a prophetic script that Yeshua fulfilled at His last meal and completed on the cross. Every element means something. The church replaced Pesach with Easter, a word derived from the Anglo-Saxon Eostre, and the prophetic script was buried under eggs and bunnies.

The KJV, ESV, NASB, and NIV all use "Passover" for Pesach, which at least preserves the meaning. But the KJV translates the Greek pascha as "Easter" in Acts 12:4, and the broader church tradition separates the Lord's Supper from Passover as if they were two different events. They were not. The last supper was a Pesach seder. The bread Yeshua broke was matzah. The cup He lifted was one of the four cups of redemption. If you have never sat at a Passover table and walked through the Haggadah, you have never seen the full picture of what Yeshua did that night. The feast is the context. Remove the feast and you remove the meaning.