Passovers

Those two sad factors can lead to a thousand passovers and walk-bys when you're an orphan – until now. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I was once at a matinee of "Flying Dutchman" in War Memorial when an airshow was going on, and during the quiet parts of the opera yes, there are some quiet parts in Wagner, you could hear the passbys and passovers of these planes, and it was VERRRRRRRRRY annoying. ❋ Sfmike (2005)

Christ would therefore be present at four passovers after His baptism: (1) John ii. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)

The Chronicler also displays exceptional interest in the musical service -- in his account, e.g., of the inauguration of the temple and of the passovers of Hezekiah and Josiah; so that it has been not unreasonably conjectured that the author was himself a Levite and member of one of the guilds of temple singers or musicians. ❋ John Edgar McFadyen (N/A)

At one of the passovers he caused three thousand of the people to be put to death in the temple and city. ❋ Unknown (1949)

There is no account that John the Baptist ever went to Jerusalem, but the Savior attended all the passovers but one during his ministry. ❋ Unknown (1886)

John names two more passovers after this that the Savior attended, making, with this, four after his ministry began, and five including the one when he was twelve years of age. ❋ Unknown (1886)

But the Sages say, “in Judah they did work on the eves of the passovers for half a day, and in Galilee they did nothing.” ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

On the eves of the passovers near to the time of evening prayer a man must not eat till it be dark. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

When it grew dark they went out and roasted their passovers. ❋ Epiphanius Wilson (1880)

The concourse that repaired to Jerusalem on the occasion was very great, and the occasion was ever after regarded as one of the greatest passovers that had ever been celebrated. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Jerusalem, whilst the fourth Gospel distributes the teaching of Jesus between Galilee, Samaria, and Jerusalem, makes it extend over three years, and refers to three passovers spent by Jesus at Jerusalem: ❋ Walter R. Cassels (1866)

Irenæus expresses his astonishment that persons professing to understand the deep things of God should have overlooked the commonest facts of the evangelical narrative, and points to the three passovers recorded in St ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)

We cannot indeed be sure even here that the vertebræ are absolutely continuous; many festivals may have been omitted; the ministry of Christ may have extended over a much longer period, as indeed Irenæus asserts that it did [131: 3]; but the three passovers bear testimony to a duration of between two and three years at the least. ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)

John mentions three passovers, but he nowhere intimates that he has given an exhaustive list of these festivals. ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)

[26: 1] We could approximate very closely to a correct estimate could we tell the number of passovers from its commencement to its close, but this point cannot be determined with absolute certainty. ❋ Unknown (1854)

` What have I to do, 'asks the impatient reader, ` with jasper and sardonyx, beryl and chalcedony; what with arks and passovers, ephahs and ephods; what with lepers and emerods; what with heave-offerings and unleavened bread; chariots of fire, dragons crowned and horned, behemoth and unicorn? ❋ Unknown (1850)