Is Easter always observed during Passover and...?

Question

why does it always fall on a Sunday? Shouldn't it fall on say the 3rd day of Passover, or on the 5th day of Passover?
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Schneb: How could he possibly have been raised from the dead on a Sunday -- they weren't using a Christian calendar yet!

Schneb: You personally celebrate it on the passover also? But on which day -- there are 7 or 8 days of Passover?

Answer 1

occasionally the goyim follow the lunar calendar

Answer 2

The date on which the Passover is celebrated always falls on the same day. However it is a date on the Jewish calendar, which does not have the same number of days, and months as the Gregorian (American) calendar. So the date of Passover always changes in relationship to our calendar. Somethings "Easter" falls in the same week as Passover, other times it does not (a week before or after).

Like many holidays in the US, where they have been adjusted to always fall on a Monday, so the date of Easter was adjusted centuries ago to make it always fall on a Sunday. It is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring.

Part of the reason for adjusting the date was to keep it on "the first day of the week" when Christians were already gathering. Part of it was because since the actual year of the crucifxion is not not known (probably between 27 and 30AD), the actual date is not known. So any day it was celebrated would be a "guess". And finally to make it fall on a date that was already commonly celebrated as a pagen feast day. This gave Christian an alternative to celebrating the pagen holiday (and still be within a week of the date when it actually happened).

Answer 3

"And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt."
Exodus 12:13
When the Jews were in slavery to the Egyptians, the Lord raised up Moses to be their deliverer. Moses told the Pharaoh about the plagues that would descend upon the Egyptian people if Pharaoh would not let God's people go. Of course, pharaoh refused and the plagues hit Egypt with a fury. The last plague was the death of the first born of each family who lived in Egypt. Since the Jews lived in Egypt, they were subject to this plague the same as the Egyptians. However, the Lord provided a means of protection. If they would take the blood of a lamb and spread it over the doorposts of their homes, the Lord would "passover" them and the firstborn in their homes would be spared.
It should be obvious that the Passover is typological of Christ. The shed blood of the lamb, of course, represents the shed blood of Christ. The Lord passed over the homes whose doors were covered in blood. That is, the judgment of God was not carried out upon those who were under the blood of the lamb.
After the Lord killed the firstborn in all the households of Egypt, Pharaoh let the Israelites go.
Because Moses was a type of Christ and passover is a shadow of Christ's work on the cross it does make sense that Easter would occur durring Passover.
I cannot answer why it is always on a Sunday with complete certantity, I am sorry I cannot help you there.

Answer 4

Yeshua was raised from the dead on a Sunday. However, I celebrate on the day of Passover as well as the Sunday. I personally don't like calling it Easter. I call it Resurrection Day.