Did Easter replace Passover?

Question

My friend is trying to convince me that Easter was a rip-off of Passover. I'm Jewish and I don't see how Easter has anything to do with Passover whatsoever.
Any insight anyone?

Answer 1

It all depends on what your friend means by "rip off".
Jesus was Jewish, he came to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, as all good Jews did when the Holy Temple was still standing. The Last Supper was a seder. The rituals of the Mass, any Mass, are directly lifted from those of the seder (elevating and blessing the wine, etc...).
But the essential meaning of Easter to Christians is about the "miracle" of Jesus' resurrection after dying on the cross, which of course has nothing to do with Passover.

Answer 2

The date of Easter (I mean the Christian holy day) is pegged to the date of Passover which has to do with the lunar calendar so it's different every year. That's not a rip off, that's just how it is figured. There was an Easter in the European cultures before there was a Christian holiday. It marks the coming of spring and that's why you see bunnies and eggs and Easter flowers. That's unrelated to Passover, okay?

Answer 3

Easter and Passover are two
separate things.
Easter is when Jesus was
raptured into heaven after He
was crucified and spoke with
his Disciples and others for
forty days.

Passover is the remembrance
of when Moses put the plagues on Pharaoh and the last curse of God was for the death angel to kill all of the Egyptian's firstborn. The Lord told Moses to tell all the Jews to kill a lamb and wipe its blood all around the house' doorway and when the death angel came, he would pass over that house. This is what saved the Jews (of that time)
from certain death. Pharaoh
gave up after that and let them go.

Answer 4

No. Passover was the Last Supper. Easter is the rising of Christ.