Why do most Christian religions not commemorate Jesus death on Passover day?
Actually from what the Bible said it was Preparation day, the day before passover. Now, if Jesus arose on Sunday that would make his death on Thursday evening. Do Jewish people do work and come out and do gathers in public on PASSOVER NIGHT. Passover’s a sabbath, a holy day. But you’re point is well taken. Jesus was dead and in the tomb by sundown and the start of Passover. What the Catholics did was go with a Sunday closest after Passover and the Greek/Russian/Romanian Orthodox stick with the older method while the Catholic/Protestants stick with the newer dating method, hence they sometimes celebrate Easter a week before or after each other. Your point is also well taken in that Jesus asked his (Jewish) disciples to remember him the next year and all years after when they break bread and drink the sacrimental wine. Hence Jesus expected them to remember him during the Passover tradition. What most fail to notice is that the crusifiction and ressurection were on a FIXED day in time, no
It isn’t actually certain that Jesus died on Passover day; the Gospels don’t in fact agree on whether the Last Supper was a Passover meal, although it probably was. Christian scholars in the first millennium of the Common Era didn’t fully understand the Jewish calendar but knew it has something to do with the moon. They developed a number of different ways of working out the date of Easter. As far as the Western churches were concerned, the method of working it out was standardised in 664 at the Synod of Whitby (the town from which I write), and the method concerned (the Sunday following the full moon on or after 25 March) has been used ever since, with the death of Jesus being commemorated on the Friday before the Sunday. The change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar has complicated matters further and is, I think, the reason why the Eastern churches celebrate Easter at a different time in most years. The commemoration of the death of Jesus is not meant to be a strict anniversa
