Passover, or Pesach is a festival celebrating when God "passed over" the houses of the Israelites during the final plague of the Ten Plagues of Egypt, the killing of the first-born. It is typically celebrated on the 15th of Nisan (During the full moon in March or April), according to the Hebrew calendar.
The synoptic Gospels seem to present Last Supper as a Passover Seder. However, the Gospel of John indicates that the Passover was observed after Jesus' crucifixion. To reconcile the differing accounts in John and the synoptics, some scholars propose that there was a variation in the timing of the Passover celebration during the first century. According to this view, Jesus (and others) may have observed the Passover on the evening of the 14th of Nisan, while others celebrated it on the 15th.
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