It would seem that God followed the Passover ritual. It is actually the opposite, God put into place the Passover ritual as a precursor for His coming as Jesus Christ - the innocent lamb, saving of the firstborn from death, the marking of blood on the door, the feasting on the meat of the lamb, the slaughter of the lamb at around 3 pm, the unleavened bread. etc.

Question: Why did you choose the bread to be your flesh and not the lamb served during Passover?

God’s answer:

Meaning: "The Feast of the Unleavened Bread, which is concurrent with Passover, commemorates the fact that Jews had no time for their bread to rise in their haste to leave Egypt."⁴⁵

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 16:3)

As God said, the reason why we should use unleavened bread for the Holy Eucharist is because we celebrate a New Passover. When we eat the Holy Eucharist, we gain and celebrate our freedom.

Question: What does the bread (body) and the wine (blood) mean?

God’s answer:

Meaning: I was also led to the following biblical verses: (John 6: 35-63

I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?*

It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh* is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ( John 6:48-63)