Jesus the Passover Lamb

I want to share the comments of the author of the People's Bible for Exodus 12:1-12, shortened just a bit:

As we look at the directions God gave for preparing the Passover meal, we see step-for-step how the entire ritual points to Christ, our Passover Lamb:

• John the Baptist, when calling attention to the promised Messiah whose way he was to prepare, pointed to Jesus and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29). When writing to the Corinthians, Paul declared, "Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed" (1 Corinthians 5:7).
• God directed that this Passover lamb was to be "without defect."--Peter wrote to the scattered Christians of Asia Minor that they were redeemed "with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect" (1 Peter 1:19).
• The Passover lamb was to be slaughtered as a sacrifice. See Ephesians 5:2. Also, the writer of the book of Hebrews repeatedly refers to Christ as an "offering" and a "sacrifice."
• The blood on the doorframes--This points, of course, to the central teaching of Scripture, that we are redeemed from the power of sin, death, and Satan "with the precious blood of Christ."
• Later on in this same chapter, the Lord directed Moses and Aaron concerning the Passover lamb, "Do not break any of the bones" (verse 46).--After Jesus' death on the cross, the soldiers did not break his bones as they did to those who were crucified with him. John writes, "These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken'" (19:36).