What is the importance of the special meal of remembrance that Jewish families eat at the Passover which Jesus ate with His followers on the night before He died to Christians?

Answer 1

For the Jews the Passover was a time to remember when God delivered their ancestors from Egypt. The Israelites were told to sacrifice a lamb and paint the lamb's blood on the door posts of their houses, they were saved from God's judgment on the people of Egypt by the blood of the lamb.

Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples to remember this time when the children of Israel were saved from God's judgment.

This is important to Christians because Jesus came and died as the "lamb of God" a sacrifice to save people from God's judgment on sin and all who believe will not face God's judgment.

Answer 2

Just as the blood of the lamb in the Old Testament served as a covering for sins, so the shed blood of Jesus Christ allows for the forgiveness of sins today.

I Corinthians 5:7: ... For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.

The act of eating the flesh provided for the physical healing of the children of Israel. Similarly, the body of Christ was offered as payment for the consequences of present-day sin, including sickness, disease, and want.

Matthew 8:17: Himself [Jesus] took our infirmities [unwholeness], and bare our sicknesses.

These two things Jesus did for us for he is our Passover.

Answer 3

The passover was important to Jews. Jesus was born on earth as a Jew. Therefore, the passover was important to Jesus. Remember the account of the Jews being freed from Egyptian slavery due to plague #10 which was the death of all firstborns except for those whose homes had blood clearly displayed outside. The angel used by God "passed over" those homes,. Plus, there was prophetic & symbolic significance that linked the passover to Jesus. The Apostle Paul is recorded as saying: “For, indeed, Christ our passover has been sacrificed.” (1Co 5:7) Here he likens Christ Jesus to the passover lamb. When John the Baptizer first saw Jesus he pointed and said:“See, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!” (Joh 1:29) John may have had in mind the Passover lamb, or the male sheep that Abraham offered up instead of his son Isaac or the male lamb sacrificed each day upon God’s altar at Jerusalem.—Ge 22:13; Ex 29:38-42. The Passover really foreshadowed one of the things the blood of Christ would accomplish. That being: delivering Christ "firstborn" congregation in the sense they would be "free" to go to heaven and rule as kings & priests with Christ in his kingdom. At Hebrews 12:23 Paul said: "But YOU have approached a Mount Zion and a city of [the] living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and myriads of angels, in general assembly, and the congregation of the firstborn who have been enrolled in the heavens,..." Ephesians 1:7 says: "By means of him we have the release by ransom through the blood of that one, yes, the forgiveness of [our] trespasses, according to the riches of his undeserved kindness." According to 1 Thess 1:9,10: "For they themselves keep reporting about the way we first entered in among YOU and how YOU turned to God from [YOUR] idols to slave for a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from the heavens, whom he raised up from the dead, namely, Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath which is coming." After celebrating his last passover with his apostles, Jesus instituted something that was to be remembered annually just as the passover had been observed annually. The attached web link refers you to that "something" and further explains why we do not observe the passover today.

Answer 4

Look at I Chorinthians; Paul discusses it in depth. the Passover meal Christ shared last with his Disciples was important to them as ritual of the Jewish religion. It became important to the Christian church as marking the covenant Christ made to be the last sacrifice for the absolution of sin. It is memorialized in the communion service in Christian churches.

Answer 5

Was and still is.

The highlight of Passover is the Seder meal. This meal is of great importance in Judaism. It is a 3325-year old continuous tradition that began on the night of the Exodus from Egypt (see Exodus chapter 12), and is fully detailed in our ancient Oral Traditions (Talmud, chapter Arvei Pesachim).
The Seder meal is one of those occasions, like Yom Kippur and Hanukkah, that Jews all over the world, Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike, observe in common. During the Seder, we keep the essential mitzva and customs of handing Jewish traditions down to the next generation, with the traditional Seder foods and the ceremony of reading the Passover Haggadah which retells the events of the Exodus.

During the Seder meal, other traditional foods are eaten in addition to the matzah: bitter herbs, parsley, wine and haroset (see below). Salt water, a roasted egg, and a bit of roasted meat are also on the table.
During all the days of Passover, matzah (unleavened bread) is eaten; while leavened foods such as bread, cake, cookies, cereal and pasta are forbidden. Certain prayers are added in the synagogue services, and the Torah is read each day.
Here is the symbolism of the items on the Seder plate:
The bitter herbs (maror) symbolize the harsh slavery which the Israelites suffered in Egypt. Horseradish and/or romaine lettuce are traditionally used for maror.
Charoset - A sweet mixture representing the mortar used by the Jewish slaves to build the storehouses of Egypt. In Ashkenazi Jewish homes, charoset is traditionally made from chopped nuts, grated apples, cinnamon, and sweet red wine.
Karpas - A vegetable other than bitter herbs, traditionally parsley, which is dipped into salt water at the beginning of the Seder. The dipping of a simple herb into salt water (which represents tears) recalls the pain felt by the Israelite slaves in Egypt.
Beitzah - A hard-boiled egg, symbolizing the korban chagigah (festival sacrifice) that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem and roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night. Although both the Pesach sacrifice and the chagigah were meat-offerings, the chagigah is commemorated by an egg, a symbol of mourning.
Z'roa - A roasted lamb or goat shank-bone, chicken wing, or chicken neck; symbolizing the korban Pesach (Pesach sacrifice), which was a lamb that was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem, then roasted and eaten as part of the meal on Seder night.

See also:

How is the Seder celebrated?

What is the importance of the Israelite Exodus?

Answer 6

They believe that Jesus was crucified during Passover.