so go ahead and give us your exegesis on easter or the passover in Acts 12:4
PICJAG.
Glad you asked.
There is a double meaning for "pascha".
There is a Jewish meaning and a Christian meaning.
The Jewish meaning is pascha lamb(celebration}
The Christian meaning is pascha lamb of God, Jesus Christ celebration per the 1st resurrection anniversary to be continued at Jewish celebration yearly....
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover
(pascha) is sacrificed for us:
Here is that celebration in action....
20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? what shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
This pascha celebration coincided with the Jewish pascha AKA PASSOVER(English).
The 1611 translators used the word "Easter" to describe this Christian pasha(passover) feast.
The opposition has been duped into believing it was describing a pagan holiday.