Bible Verses About Passover: Jesus crucified at time of

"As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake."

It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;

for they said, "Not during the festival, or the people will riot."

They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor’s headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn’t want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.