Why Many Languages Have The Same Name For Easter & Passover

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Easter: www.history.com/topics/holida...
Passover: www.history.com/topics/holida...
On Passover & Easter: www.grammarphobia.com/blog/20...
The Passover-Easter Connection: www.thereporter.com/2020/04/1...
Passover Etymology: www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-0...
Easter Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/easter
Ostara: blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2016/0...
Easter In Other Languages: uklp.com/how-to-say-easter-in...

[@NameExplain]

What colour is the Easter Bunny in your mind?

[@skhabbythecrabby]

White

[@numburger]

White all the way

[@DJPJ.]

Brown

[@themidochannel]

Pink

[@Zachyshows]

Same colour as the 8 quadrillion subscriber play button But also pink

[@sohopedeco]

I once asked a question on Quora if the Christian Easter and the Jewish Easter are always on the same day. I received a lot of angry answers saying the "Jewish Easter" didn't exist. I had no idea, given both are called "Páscoa" in Portuguese. 🐰🗿

[@helenbaumander3953]

That is really confusing. It's not your fault that people who came before you were idiots.

[@pierreabbat6157]

They aren't; sometimes they're a month apart. A few centuries after Jesus, rabbis codified the calendar, and Christians codified the computus a bit differently.

[@Furienna]

It is the same thing in Swedish, but we call both holidays "påsk".

[@Furienna]

​@@pierreabbat6157 Yes, but Passover will mostly start in the week before Easter.

[@allangibson8494]

@@pierreabbat6157 Actually it’s worse than that - Catholic Christians and Eastern Orthodox Christians use different formulas based on different calendars that simply don’t coincide…

[@amayasasaki2848]

The US based Greek Orthodox church I attend calls it Pascha (PA-ska) instead of Easter, and we have the Julian calendar for Pascha still, so this will be our Palm Sunday instead of Pascha. Our holy week with Good Friday and Pascha is next week.

[@videakias3000]

do a video about language misconceptions. there is one misconception about german and greek: although it is true that both languages have many words for "the",the truth is that not all of those words translate as "the" at english, some of them translate as "of" or apostrophe s ('s).

[@pierreabbat6157]

I've gotten double-taken by "des", which means "of the" in both German and French, but they're unrelated. German "des" is genitive singular, and it's "de-" (cognate with "the") with a genitive ending "-s" (cognate with "'s"). French "des" is a contraction of "de les", which is plural.

[@robinreneemusic]

I really appreciate this video! I hadn't realized that Easter and Passover have the same or similar names in so many other languages. I celebrate the Pagan holiday of Ostara on the spring equinox. It was good to hear that tradition mentioned along with the other celebrations at this time of year. I also usually attend a friend's seder. It is wonderful - I hope you get yourself invited to one next year. 🙂 Hoping everyone has good holidays, whichever and however you celebrate.

[@AtarahDerek]

Thank you! I've been wanting to know for a long time why it seems that only Anglophones call it Easter, while everyone else calls it Passover.

[@rebeccaorman1823]

You still don't.

[@MultiMidden]

Only Anglophones, and the Germans and the Polish and the Ukrainians and the Hungarians and the Slovenians and the Slovakians and the Czechs and everyone else who doesn't.

[@AtarahDerek]

@@MultiMidden Yes, the video established that the Slavs call it something else entirely. The point is that only two languages call it Easter. Almost everyone else calls it Passover.

[@pennywaldrip3774]

I'm going to direct you to the Religion For Breakfast channel, where he dives into "myths" like the Sol Invictus/Christmas story.

[@Shadefinder1]

That's not a myth though dude

[@nebulan]

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[@ItsjustTNT123]

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[@ItsjustTNT123]

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[@nebulan]

@TNT by default youtube only allows links to other youtube videos in comments. But each supply their sources in their descriptions.

[@kevin_bodi]

It's indeed quite interesting that Norway and many other nordic countries didn't inherit the german word or since it's religious, through protestantism which also came from Germany. I was able to find the norse word "Páskar" in Wiktionary and a Norwegian lexicon (SNL), but not much information on it and if it was used anywhere else than in Iceland after they became Christian. In the viking age, there was some celebration of the spring with a spring "blót" (blood offering) and all. The Swedish had the "Dísablót". Those with the same reason as the germanic, to enhance the coming harvest. Look those up.

[@kitlynmelby5995]

A very interesting thing I noticed at the Easter Mass at an Anglican church, is that the prayers and hymns is called the Paschal Prayer and Paschal Hymn.

[@nebulan]

Religion for Breakfast says its the opposite. Started in Britain. Sol invictus thing is also a myth.

[@nickimontie]

Happy Passover and Easter! Seders are really interesting - I hope you get invited to one!

[@user-gr9fq9gt9w]

6:47 That is not "more or less coincidentally at the same time" Since the Israelites/Jews were heavily agricultural people, their culture was based apon agriculture. Because of that, the main three holidays were based on the cycles in agricultural growth (which obviously happens because of the seasons). Passover is literally called in Hebrew "the spring holiday" The whole slavery in Egypt is based on stories. One of the reasons for their creations is to justify the celebrations of "the time when the crops are blooming". (Since in the Levant there isn't really a very distinguished season that is called "spring". There's summer and winter.)

[@Mimiheart9]

The slavery in Egypt thing also came about from the Levites, who actually did come from Egypt and integrated into the Israelite and Samaritan Canaanite tribes. They were something like wandering tribal priests and their stories ended up entering the Jewish canon. At least that's what current archaeological evidence suggests. We even see it when looking at Levite names compared to other Hebrew names. Moshe, Aharon, Miriam, Pinchas -- all of them have Egyptian origins, or at least make more sense with Egyptian origins than Semitic ones. Bereshit seems to be a collection of Mediterranean and Levantine stories, Shemot through Devarim Levite stories. Then the rest of the Tanach is a mix of stories and historical documentation.

[@AtarahDerek]

Okay, wise guy, if the Jews allegedly fabricated their origin, where DID they come from? Logic dictates that you CANNOT have an effect without a cause, and the Jews are an effect.

[@Sonilink713]

In polish easter is wielkanoc and passover Pascha or locally żydowska wielkanoc

[@modmaker7617]

Moja teoria jest że nazwa "wielkanoc" oryginalnie była nazwą pogańskiego słowiańskiego święta a kiedy Słowianie się chrystianizowali to używali nazwy święt słowiańskich jako nazwy święt chrześcijańskich. Większość języków słowiańskich mają coś podobnego do nazwy "wielkanoc" albo "wieki dzień" na te święto.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

As a Vietnamese, I hope best wishes to you, Westerners.

[@allanlank]

It's been years since I "sat seder". Although not Jewish, my parents did have the foresight to have me circumcised and therefore not prohibited from joining my Jewish friends for a Passover meal. Purim, the Feast of Esther, and Hanukah, the Feast of Lights, are also great times for a Jewish meal.

[@beargreen1]

There are so many terms for one thing, but Easter is a cool Germanic name that just started getting used.

[@Jan_Koopman]

The Germanic peoples in what would become The Netherlands did have a similar "Ostern"-like celebration, but I'm not sure what they called it. I think we call it 'Pasen', because it's derived from the Bible terminology: Pesach -> Pasha -> Pasen. So I think it boils down to differences in the way the Bible was translated

[@yurineri2227]

Thanks for the great vídeo :)

[@NA-ge3ll]

I wonder if the other Germanic countries don't follow the Easter/Ostern pattern since they were converted later, or perhaps when calling it Ostern was still more of a colloquial thing.

[@casuallystalled]

Happy Passover and Easter

[@bananaboat1808]

Loved the video. I'm Jewish myself, and if you are ever in the USA, I'd love to have you over for a Passover seder. And yes, we have great food!

[@franciskafayeszter4138]

In Hungarian Easter is called Húsvét, which could be roughly translated as 'taking meat'. This refers to the Christian tradition of not eating meat during Lent (40 day fasting period before Easter). It's kinda funny, that the one thing Hungarians wanted to be remembered is that they finally can eat meat again.

[@neville1311]

Fun fact, good friday in Sweden it's called "Long friday"

[@petrfedor1851]

And "Great/Big/Important Friday" in Czech (Velký pátek)

[@elinakangas571]

in Finland too.

[@robinreneemusic]

Thanks!

[@rebeccaorman1823]

To correct a number of misstatements. The Anglo-Saxons of England adopted the name of Easter from a month named for their Goddess. They then went on to evangelize Germany establishing Christianity there hence the similar name. Furthermore, we have no information on the celebration of the Anglo-Saxons goddess. Simply one single reference from the venerable Bede. We don't even know that she was the goddess of the spring or the dawn. That is simply scholarly speculation. Furthermore, anyone linking her to Easter eggs or the Easter Bunny is selling a lot of BS. There is absolutely no information linking her to eggs or Bunnies. Further, it's worth noting that eggs don't become part of the Easter holiday until the Middle Ages and the Easter Bunny until much later.

[@jamaluddinkhalifa8371]

how did "novel" come to be the name of the literary form? according to Wiktionary, it comes from the Italian "novella", which is another literary form, and that in turn came from the Latin "novus", meaning "new", and as you can see, the meanings of "novus" and "novella" seem unnrelated.

[@ep4445]

I know it's not exactly relevant to the specific topic of this video... But it would have also been nice if you had mentioned it was Ramadan currently as well. Islamic holidays and Islamic things always seem to be glossed over/forgotten in public discourse.

[@AtarahDerek]

Ramadan migrates backward in the year, whereas Easter/Passover always falls around the same time. You can't just kick in the door at a seder dinner and scream, "Notice me!" That's incredibly selfish and rude.

[@ep4445]

@@AtarahDerek And ignoring the second largest religion isn't rude? One that's 135 times the size of the worlds Jewish population?

[@aaronsirkman8375]

@@AtarahDerek Well, good thing that's...not at all what they did? They just wished people were aware of/acknowledged Muslim holidays as well.

[@AtarahDerek]

@@aaronsirkman8375 There is nothing about Ramadan that is relevant to this video.

[@aaronsirkman8375]

@@AtarahDerek Wow, crazy how you said the exact thing they started their comment with.

[@entwistlefromthewho]

Do we have Easter films? For those of us who grew up before the streaming age, when our childhoods were spent with 4 TV channels (and one of them in Welsh), we had to watch the likes of Ben-Hur, Jason and the Argonauts, The Ten Commandments, and as many Carry On films as could be squeezed into a bank holiday weekend.

[@josecarloelpescadero9164]

The Most Important thing is People getting together around a Table to Share Food and enjoy each others company without hate, betrayal nor snitching, itching , Jealousy & Greed ... and The Spring Celebration is celebrating Life has Passed the Dark, Cold & Stormy days & nights of winter ... and No other Warrior King invaded their Lives, kidnapped their Kids, Set Fire in houses and fields ... burnt the crops and ruined the fertile Land ... May The Holy Spirit from God or Allah guides the light to the hearts of men and womb men and rest their raging selves and find peace with-in.

[@BananLord]

In Romanian, Easter is called Paște, but there's a food called pască which is eaten on Easter. We do use the word "pascal" or "pascale" (plural) to refer to, for example, Easter traditions (= tradiții pascale)

[@luzellemoller6621]

The bunny isn't officially a certain colour as far as I know but as far as I know it's mostly protade as white or pink

[@andrewjgrimm]

0:33 The Ten Commandments plays every Easter in Peru according to my wife and seems to get played in Australia too. Though technically it’s about Passover.

[@anthropolis4427]

In Croatian and Serbian it is called Uskrs or Vaskrs, what literally means "resurrection". Also in our countries the most popular Easter movie is probably Ben-Hur.

[@2712animefreak]

Also: Christmas: "Little God" Corpus Christi: "Body-fest" Assumption of Mary: "Big Lady" (or even just "Lady") Advent: "The coming" We aren't people of many words, are we?

[@thorthewolf8801]

Interestingly, easter is called húsvét in hungarian, which literally translates to "taking of the meat"

[@michellebwilson2610]

Chocolat with Juliette Binoche is an Easter film 😊

[@Uulfinn]

Austra Freyja was the norse goddess of fertility and the dawn (Freyja is a title "lady", not a name). Austrōn in Proto Germanic. Ēastre in Old English. Ōstara in Old High German. The name was used for the holiday in all Germanic languages. Dutch and Norse took a new name to distinguish the new christian holiday from the old germanic one. English and German used the old name.

[@saisaipech]

Interestingly, "pascua", which in philippine languages post-hispanic period spelling system is "paskwa", is Christmas in some languages of the Philippines (i.e. Hiligaynon and Ilocano languages). "Paskwa" in Tagalog and Cebuano is "Pasko". In Kapampangan language, "Paskwa" is "Pasku". "Pasko" and "Pasku" also mean Christmas.

[@tonicastel2390]

Jesus was born around 4 BC/BCE.

[@bernardcornellisvanmeijere4375]

The Last Supper wasn't a Seder, as what we know as a Passover Seder today wasn't a thing until well after the death of Jesus.

[@ArturoStojanoff]

In Argentina, we speak Spanish, so we call Easter "pascua" and Passover "pascua judía," literally "Jewish Easter," but since there is a big Jewish community, we often also call Passover "pesaj," with the "j" sounding like the German "ch" in "Bach."

[@2712animefreak]

Meanwhile in Croatia: Resurrection! Another interesting thing is that so many languages, including all the Romance ones call Saturday "Sabbath" while all the other day except Sunday are named after Roman deities, meanwhile English uses the name derived from a Roman god Saturn which almost no other language uses.

[@doredam8919]

Slight correction: in Dutch Pesach is used more than Pascha nowadays

[@WayneKitching]

It's interesting. We still use Pasga in Afrikaans.

[@duukm]

The last supper was actually a Passover dinner

[@rateeightx]

I suspect the reason the name of Passover didn't change in English and German is more to do with differences in how Christianity and Judaism spread to England and Germany; To my knowledge Christianity mainly spread to those countries by the locals being converted, And thus, Since they already had a name for a holiday around the same time and wanted to keep celebrating it, They simply reused that name for the new holiday of Easter, Whereas Judaism doesn't really proselytise in the way that Christianity does, And thus most Jews in those countries, Rather than being converts, Either moved there from elsewhere, Or were descended from other Jews who moved there from elsewhere, So they already celebrated Passover under the old name, And had no reason to change it or start celebrating the local festival instead. Although your theory could have some credibility, Especially if we assume that Passover and Easter were mainly considered different ways of celebrating the same holiday in early Christianity rather than two distinct holidays, It might then make sense to use the German or English name when speaking about it in German or English, Although the Jews, Holding onto their culture and traditions, And also generally interacting more with eachother than the other locals of the land, Would've continued to speak Hebrew & Aramaic (Or later on their own Germanic language, Yiddish) amongst themselves rather than using the local tongue.

[@kennylex]

I think that in the beginning there was logick, we saw midwinter and midsummer when days was as longest or shortest, and then spring and autumn when day and night had same length, that was like "cool man, we should totaly do something those days" and they started to celebrate. Like in winter that the light will will return, and the Jesus colt saw Jesus as the light that would return, so in the winter they a day they called xmas so they could remember the birth of jesus, and then they made days at spring and autumn too and celebrated different things, and the same for midsummer. This is the reason most holidays happe almost at the same time, but then humans manage to fuuk this up with calandars, like some said, "You this dude was here on a friday so let celebrate it every 365th day on the Friday" and Earth did not bother to change rotation speed so each holliday drifted away a bit to wrong days, by that time we had fuuked it up sp much no religion did want to fix that so they just revrote their religion then religion is not that important.

[@emmetf.cameron1712]

It's historically unlikely that the last supper was actually a Passover meal, & the seder custom hadn't developed in the way we know it today. In general, major Jewish holidays were celebrated quite differently in Jesus' time than they are today because there was still a Temple to make sacrifices. The story of the last supper certainly uses imagery & metaphors from the Pesach customs of Jesus' time, so it's quite possible he used those symbols as teaching tools for his disciples. & yes, this seems to be where the naming conventions come from in many languages. But no, it probably wasn't actually Passover.

[@revinhatol]

Palm Sunday for Catholics Easter Sunday for Catholics = Palm Sunday for Orthodoxy Easter Sunday for Orthodoxy

[@ruwardbol]

I'm very sire that the dutch one for passover was wrong. I've heard of Pesach never heard of it as Pascha

[@aspermwhalespontaneouslyca8938]

Easter is actually different for us orthodox christians, it's next week not this. In Bulgarian there are also two completely different words. Easter is Великден(velikden, literally greatday) while passover is пасха(pas-ha).

[@amayasasaki2848]

Ha, hi fellow Orthodox!

[@goatgamer001]

In Greece we only use the second one for both, (Πάσχα) and it's also is next week

[@aspermwhalespontaneouslyca8938]

@@goatgamer001 yeah I know, we are both Orthodox. The second paragraph is just about linguistics

[@hubertk7363]

Why many languages have the same name for Easter & Passover? Because Easter is Passover. Eleven minute video shortened to four words.

[@erinrising2799]

my Easter movie is The Life of Brian

[@petrfedor1851]

The only Easter Movie that isn't just adaptation of Bible. And yes, satire ain't adaptation (with one expection)

[@gregblair5139]

Note the "same time" in this video means same season, not same age. Passover is much older that Easter. It's likely that the German pagan celebration is too!

[@Martin97perussini]

In spanish they are called "Pascuas" (easter) and "Pascuas judias" (jewish easter)

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Since "Pascua" ultimately comes from the Hebrew "Pesach" for Passover, it's more accurate to say they're called "Passover" and "Jewish Passover".

[@theisraelilocomotive70414]

This is probably gonna get pushed down, but since I didn’t see anyone else saying it, the pronunciation of the Hebrew word for Passover is not in fact “Pesca”, and the meal isn’t said “Sayduh”, it’s “Pesach”(roll the ch like “fancy” Bach) and “Seder”(both E sounds are like “Ben”). A good video historically speaking, but the British accent is strong here, lol.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Come to New York, and I'll take you to a Seder. I'm surprised that you didn't throw in the name Pascal

[@rateeightx]

Is "Easter" really from the German "Ostern"? I always heard it came directly from the Anglo-Saxon version of the goddess Ostara, Who was called Eastre or Eostre.

[@myspleenisbursting4825]

it is

[@dextervandendowe8329]

6:00 for those people who want the answer

[@longschlongsilver7628]

One thing I'm jealous about other languages is how obvious the relationship between Easter and Passover is for them. You never see a Spaniard or Italian arguing that Easter comes from the pagan goddess ishtar

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

I'm Jewish and believe me when I tell you that you don't want to eat the food in a Seder, absolutely disgusting we all hate it

[@helenbaumander3953]

You never tried my Baba's potatoes or brisket.

[@ln4473]

I think it might be too broad to say that Christianity as a whole adapted it’s traditions/holidays to fit with the cultural norms and that is why it’s so popular (although i know you didn’t intend this in Ill will). Orthodox Christian’s around the world celebrate on a different day and orthodoxy as a whole has gone to great lengths to protect their ancient traditions. Coptic orthodox people have fought persecution for centuries and despite this have managed to protect 2000year old traditions that would have otherwise been wiped out

[@greengreen110]

in romania easter is "paste" and passover is just "pastele evreiesc" which translates as "the hebrew's easter"

[@thepatriarchy819]

White Easter bunny 🐰 👇

[@erinrising2799]

my grandpa wanted me to be named Pasquale if I had been a boy

[@FoggyD]

Worth noting that Eastern (Orthodox) Christianity sometimes celebrates Easter on a different day. When it comes to Christianity adapting itself to existing belief systems with syncretic festivals, the sombre low-key All Souls' Day becoming the rather more bombastic Día de los Muertos in deeply Roman Catholic Mexico always springs to mind... but of course, it's completely the wrong time of year to make that a topical video!

[@user-cj7oz5mm6h]

On the day in the Julian Calendar are how Orthodox people celebrate religious Holidays. So Christmas Eve is January 6 Christmas Day is January 7 Old New Year on 14 January which we have. We celebrate Easter on 16th 17th April 2023 and 18th is like a 3rd day but we work in 2023 And April 13 Good Thursday April 14 Good Friday April 15 Good Saturday in 2023

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

Пасха (Pronounced pass-huh, close to pesah) & Великдень (Pronounced way-leek-dang, the great day) in Ukrainian. Here the names are considered of same event

[@Shadefinder1]

But russian and Ukrainian в make a v sound. And there is no g in it? Великдень should be pronounced more like veleekden. And even that's not really close based on what letters are being used and wherr they are placed

[@helenbaumander3953]

Not to Jewish people, they're not.

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

@@Shadefinder1 I didn't intend to bring in the International Phonetic Alphabet :) The words people are acquainted with are a quick way to make up their sound before they incapacitate me with their butchering of Eastern European pronounciations. XD The quirks are tunable for later

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

@@helenbaumander3953 They are concentrated in the downtowns of Odesa, Dnipro and Kyiv in relatively small numbers. That's why I omitted the distinctions, though your claim needs no denial

[@helenbaumander3953]

@@Arturino_Burachelini So they don't matter because there aren't many of them? That's what it looks like you're saying.

[@simmat6419]

In Russian, our word for Easter is "Paska"

[@petrfedor1851]

Easter Slavs use variation on "The Great Night" which honestly would be more fitting to Xmas.

[@golden_polonia]

Just so you know in Polish the c makes „k” sound only in foreign words, it is actually more close to „ts” sound. So please next time check the pronouncetion before recording a video

[@Sonilink713]

And l and r are never semi-vowels in Polish

[@heronimousbrapson863]

"He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy..."

[@eammonful]

The eggs and bunnies and stuff isnt actually a pagan adaptation. They arise much later after the pagan influence had died out. Eggs for example probably arose because Christians wouldnt eat eggs for lent so they would now be able to eat it for Easter

[@asurrealistworld4412]

I thought Alice and Wonderland was an Easter film.

[@Highlandword9]

Yummy pancakes on Mardi gras

[@thatcatlover]

My birthday is today

[@mattreynolds3178]

happy birthday!

[@thatcatlover]

Actually no it was 10days ago

[@TheGabygael]

rise of the guardians is an easter movie

[@modmaker7617]

It's more of a Christmas film TBH

[@TheGabygael]

@@modmaker7617 it's a movie set around Easter where the plot is to help children dream again to save the Easter bunny, close enough and it's frankly all we have

[@modmaker7617]

@@TheGabygael I know. I watch it every Christmas. I always felt it was more Christmas as it has snow in it.

[@TheGabygael]

@@modmaker7617 fair point

[@borjaslamic]

Gotta love the Slavs, it's the big night, Jesus came back, let's party. Or at least eat concerning amounts of food 😝.

[@ryqd]

I don't think most people who celebrate Easter do so with bunnies and chocolate eggs.

[@euphrates1624]

Yes, it is quite strange if you aren't Pagan...

[@ryqd]

@@euphrates1624 I was referring to what he said at the beginning of the video "many people across the globe" because I think it's not done that way most of the world. I guess just like the name "Easter" wasn't transferred, the tradition also wasn't.

[@fermintenava5911]

You really think that many people wanna miss out on the fun? 😉

[@iseceepcool2]

This is like how some Christian groups see sabbat as the holy day and not Sunday

[@wordart_guian]

name explain for real... the grimms may have made ostara up and the bunnies and eggs are way more recent than that... i thought you'd be more serious than that

[@fermintenava5911]

It doesn't have to be a fabrication of the Grimms - Jacob Grimm cited the works of Beda Venerabilis from 7th century-England, who mentioned a similar goddess and feast... though his notations are very doubtable, too. So it's debatable who made what up. After all, kilts and tartans aren't all that ancient either 😉

[@wordart_guian]

@@fermintenava5911 yeah but that's england, the german one was made up by grimm

[@russellwortham2902]

I always thought the Easter bunny was white

[@JeremyWS]

Really we should be calling Easter "Pascha" in English too. We use the word "paschal", so it makes no sense for us to not be saying "Joyous Pascha", instead of "Happy Easter". But that is English for you, a lot of things about English make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[@modmaker7617]

Pascha means more Passover than Easter.

[@petrfedor1851]

Why don't call all celebrations Pascha?

[@JeremyWS]

@@petrfedor1851 , I get tired of explaining, especially since he explained in the video. Learn to listen better next time. Try cleaning out your ears. Why is Easter called Pascha? In Latin and Greek, the Christian celebration was, and still is, called Pascha (Greek: Πάσχα), a word derived from Aramaic פסחא (Paskha), cognate to Hebrew פֶּסַח (Pesach). The word originally denoted the Jewish festival known in English as Passover, commemorating the Jewish Exodus from slavery in Egypt. So if you would open your ears and use them as the listening devices they are, maybe you would understand what he was saying. Easter and Pascha are (by definition) literally the same exact holiday. Other languages call Easter "Pascha" and English should do the same. Clean out your ears and listen next time, why don't you.

[@petrfedor1851]

@@JeremyWS cause run from slavers is literaly indistinctible from ressurection. Just go to religious Jews and them they celebrate rising from dead of Christian messiah.

[@JeremyWS]

@@petrfedor1851 , Are your ears broken or something? Passover and Pascha are two different holidays. The two words have similar roots, but they are different holidays. Pascha is Easter, Easter is Pascha. Pascha is not Passover, Passover is not Pascha. Just because the words Passover and Pascha have similar etymologies does not make them the same word. They are not the same word. Other languages call Easter "Pascha" and so should English. I'm not saying that Jews celebrate Easter, but I what I am saying is that we shouldn't be calling Easter "Easter". I don't understand what you are failing to comprehend here.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

Pasg in Welsh.

[@dalentoish]

Meanwhile there's Polish, which names Easter 'Wielkanoc'

[@chrisamies2141]

would that mean something like "The great night"?

[@Sienrel]

it's always baffled me that Easter/Passover is /Pasq/ across so many languages, but in Filipino /Pasq/ is Christmas-time (Pasko). something must have happened in the translation or localisation of the holiday there.

[@danielcardona2714]

8:20 and yk calling other people’s religions evil and forcing people to give up their gods at the sword. I shall never forgive the early Christians for getting rid of all the cooler religions I mean the Norse religion literally has the world being built from a slain primordial giant’s corpse. I love u Christians but I mean you’ve gotta admit these creation stories are epic af. Good thing Paganism is coming back tho

[@ElayBanyan]

if you'll come to Israel my family will feed you next passover!

[@euphrates1624]

As a Christian myself, I call it Resurrection Sunday. I think the Jews were on to something with keeping their customs lol.

[@rowboat8343]

The hatred towards Jews has always confused me since Jesus was a Jew. I don't get it. The Easter bunny is white of course.

[@koppadasao]

Good Friday? Anyone who consider a day celebrating the torture and murder of Yeshua ben Yosef, should have their head examined. Or perhaps try the horror on themselves... Go without food for a whole day while having the skin of your back ripped off, then having to carry a 100lb piece of wood for a few miles, finally to have your arms tided to the 100lb piece of wood before they hammer nails the size of your thumb through your wrists and feet, and then hoisted up to hang as a scarecrow for 6 hours. Is it still a 'good Friday'?

[@kainingyao7873]

The word "good" in this case bears the archaic sense of it meaning "holy", in remembrance of the day Jesus died for the sins of humanity.

[@koppadasao]

@@kainingyao7873 Holy to who? The Romans? The Jews?

[@kainingyao7873]

​@@koppadasao The obvious answer is the Christians. Good Friday is considered a pretty solemn event to them.

[@koppadasao]

@@kainingyao7873 Why not for the Romans? They got the chance to rid themselves of another of these completely ungovernable Jews. Why not for the Jews? Another false messiah bit the dust...

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

It's good and holy for Christians because it was the day Christ died to free righteous souls from Hades and recapitulate death by resurrection.

[@DJPJ.]

Are you really saying this friday are called "Good friday"? That makes sens. Nothing Good about it.

[@carolusaugustussanctorum]

No, what an idiotic blasphemy: Christ, the æternal Son of God made man, passing the Via Crucis finally dying on the holy cross on the Calvary and being but on the sepulchre, atoning for all the sins of mankind, couldn't be better.

[@dash-ryan]

It's "good" because Jesus died for the sins of all humanity as the ultimate sacrifice so we can live in a fully reconciled direct relationship with God. Prior to that, the only way to atone for our sins was through animal sacrifice and the only way for a relationship was through temple worship. As Christians, we can now speak and pray directly with our LORD because Jesus has atoned for us all and rebuilt the relationship that humans broke with God in the beginning of the bible.

[@fermintenava5911]

If you wanna be that pedantic - yes, it's called that way in English. In German, it's called "Karfreitag", because old german "kara" (grievance, lament) signified the last week before Jesus' death. But then again, most English-speaking countries ARE majority protestant, so maybe you should expect differences in interpretation, shouldn't you? 🤨