The Passover lamb
The Old Testament
The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:13
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In the New Testament
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
1 Corinthians 5:7
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On the night of the exodus from Egypt, each family kills a lamb without blemish and puts the blood on the doorposts. The destroyer passes over those houses.
Jesus dies during the Passover feast and institutes the Lord's Supper during a Passover meal. At their first meeting John the Baptist already calls him 'the Lamb of God'. In Revelation 'the Lamb' is the most important name for the glorified Jesus, used nearly thirty times.