– The main passages that speak of the feasts are the following:
– Passover (Unleavened Bread):
Ex 12 : The Lord said […]: “This month will be for you the beginning of months: you will have it as the first month of the year”.
Ex 13,1-10 : The Lord said to Moses: “You shall consecrate to me every firstborn among the Israelites, both man and animal”.
Numbers 9,112 : Let the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the fixed time.
Jos 5:10 : The Israelites encamped in Galgala, and celebrated the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month.
2 Kings 23:21ff : The king gave this order to all the people: “You shall celebrate the Passover in honor of the Lord your God”.
2Ch 35,1-19 : Josiah celebrated the Passover in Jerusalem in honor of the Lord.
2Ch 30 : Hezekiah sent messengers to all Israel […] to invite them to […] celebrate the Passover in honor of the Lord.
Mt 26,2.17ss : You know that in two days it will be Easter, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to be crucified.
Lk 2,41ff : His parents went to Jerusalem every year for the Passover feast.
Jn 2,13s.23 : The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Jo 11,55s : Passover was close […] many people from all over the country went up to Jerusalem before Passover to purify themselves.
Jn 12:12 : A large crowd that had come to the feast in Jerusalem heard that Jesus was approaching.
Jn 13 :1 : Before the Feast of the Passover […] Jesus […] as he loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
1Cor 5,7 : Purify yourselves from the old leaven […] for you are unleavened bread, because Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed.
– Passover (Unleavened Bread), Atonement, Tabernacles:
Ez 45,18-25 : On the first day of the first month, you shall take a bull without blemish to make atonement for the sanctuary.
– Passover (Unleavened Bread), Weeks, Tabernacles:
Ex 23,14-17 : Three times a year you will celebrate a feast in my honor.
Ex 34,18.22 : You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread: as I commanded you, at the fixed time of the month of ears.
Deut 16:1-17 : In the month of the ears, take care to celebrate the Passover in honor of the Lord your God.
2Ch 8,13 : Each day he offered the sacrifices prescribed by Moses […] on the New Menias and on the three festivals of the year.
– Passover (Unleavened Bread), Weeks (New Year), Atonement, Tabernacles:
Ex 23 : These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy assemblies.
Num 28,16-31 : On the fourteenth day of the first month will be the Passover of the Lord.
Numbers 29 : On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy assembly and the cessation of all servile work . (The New Year’s party is almost unknown in the Bible.)
– Weeks:
Acts 2:1 : When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.
Acts 20:16 : Paul had decided not to go to Ephesus […] because he was in a hurry to celebrate […] the day of Pentecost.
1Cor 16,8 : I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost.
– Tabernacles:
Deut 31,10s : At the end of every seven years, in the year of release, on the occasion of the Feast of Tabernacles.
1 Kings 8:2.65s : All the Israelites gathered together to King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh, during the feast.
2Ch 5 : All the Israelites gathered together to the king for the feast: it was the seventh month.
Es 3,1.4 : They celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles, as prescribed, and daily they offered burnt offerings.
Ne 8,14-18 : The Israelites had to live under tents during the feast of the Seventh Month.
1Mc 10,21 : In the seventh month of the year one hundred and sixty, for the Feast of Tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy tunic.
2Mc 12,31s : They entered Jerusalem, because the Feast of Weeks was approaching.
John 7: 2: The Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was approaching.
Zech 14,16-19 : Those who are left of all nations […] will come […] to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
– The Canaanites already celebrated this feast:
Judg 9:27 : They went out into the fields, harvested the vines, trodden the grapes, celebrated the feast.
Judg 21:19s : And they said: “Behold, the annual feast of the Lord is celebrated in Shiloh”.
– Atonement:
Ex 16 : The Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron […] killed because they approached the Lord.
Acts 27 :9: Time had passed – the time for fasting had passed – and navigation became dangerous.
– Dedication:
1Mc 4,36-59 : Behold, our enemies are annihilated. Let us go up now to […] re-consecrate the holy places.
2Mc 1,8s.18 : The door of the temple was set on fire and innocent blood was shed.
2Mk 10:58 : It was on the anniversary of the profanation of the temple by the foreigners, […] that they purified it.
Jn 10:22 : The Feast of Dedication was celebrated in Jerusalem. It was winter.
– Purim: it is a profane festival, of strange origin, disconnected from the history of the chosen people.
Est 9,17-32 : It was the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. On the fourteenth day they rested and made a feast day of joy.
2Mc 15,36 : Henceforth, that day would not be allowed to pass without celebrating it and that it would be celebrated on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month.
