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过节时一件令人开心的事，就是我们都会享用某些通常在其他时候吃不到的特别食物。

有哪些食物或饮品是你在特别的日子才享用得到的呢？

当耶稣赐予祂的门徒那个我们称之为主餐的晚餐时，他们实际上正在庆祝逾越节。

许多世纪之前，以色列民曾在埃及地为奴。然而，藉着一系列大能的神迹，主拯救了他们。在神带领他们离开埃及的那一天，以色列民预备了一只羊羔作为祭物，他们按照神的吩咐，把羊羔的血涂在门框和门楣上。随后神便叫死亡之灾临到埃及，把每家头生的人畜都击杀了。不过，灾殃将会“越过”所有门框和门楣涂了血的家，那些家庭头生的人畜都不会受到伤害。

此后的每一年，神的子民都会守逾越节晚餐，耶稣和祂的门徒也照例如此行。然而，在这个特别的逾越节，情况却有不同。神再一次拯救了祂的子民，这一次，祂预备了耶稣来拯救他们脱离罪、死亡和凶恶。在这个逾越节，耶稣取代了羊羔，而祂也是唯一被杀的头生儿子。在今天，身为耶稣的门徒，我们也有祂的血作为记号，好叫我们能逾越死亡并在里面得生命。

One of the fun things about celebrating holidays is that we often enjoy special foods that we might not have at other times of the year.

What are some foods or drinks that you enjoy on special days?

When Jesus first gave his disciples the special meal that we call the Lord's Supper, they were actually already celebrating a holiday called Passover.

Hundreds of years earlier the Israelites had been slaves in Egypt. But the Lord rescued them through a number of powerful acts. On the day that God led them out of Egypt, the Israelites prepared a lamb as a sacrifice, and they spread the lamb's blood on the doorframes of their houses as God had told them to. Then God allowed a plague of death to pass through Egypt, taking the firstborn of every household, but the plague "passed over" all the homes where the doorframes were covered with blood, and the firstborn in those families were spared.

Every year after that, God's people celebrated a special Passover meal, and Jesus and his friends did the same. But on this particular Passover, things were different. God was again rescuing his people, and this time he was preparing Jesus to rescue them from sin, death, and evil. On this Passover, Jesus took the place of the lamb, once and for all, and he was the only firstborn who died. And today we, his followers, are marked by his blood so that we can escape death and have life in him.