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Bible Verses About The Quartodecimans And Pascha

Early Christian writers linked Pascha to Christ’s passion and resurrection, and many also tied the feast to the Jewish Passover’s fourteenth day. Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Methodius, Cyprian, Hippolytus, and the Apostolic Constitutions all speak to Pascha as Christ-centered, while some also discuss fasting, feast days, and the debate over whether to keep the fourteenth day.

The evidence is strong that early Christians treated Pascha as a major festival connected to Christ’s death and rising; it is mixed on calendar practice because some writers defend the fourteenth-day observance while others reject it as a Jewish-bound rule or a heretical mistake. The Quartodeciman controversy is especially clear in Hippolytus and the Apostolic Constitutions, which directly address those who wanted Easter on the fourteenth day.

Bible passages in the dossier mainly provide background texts for Passover and resurrection, especially 1 Corinthians 5:7 and the Gospel Passion accounts.

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And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD.

Bible law text for Passover on the fourteenth day

In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover.

Bible law text for the Lord's Passover on the fourteenth

And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

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In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

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The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

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And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

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After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

Direct Gospel timing for Passover.

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?

Direct Gospel Passover passage.

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

Gospel preparation of the Passover

Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

Gospel timing of the Passover

Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

Gospel naming of the feast as Passover

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

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And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Old Testament Passover timing passage.

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

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And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

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And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

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Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

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But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Resurrection passage related to paschal theology

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

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And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

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He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

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Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;

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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Bible verse used by several fathers to explain Pascha.

And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

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