On March 21 this year, the Christian world observes Good Friday and on 23rd March Easter is celebrated. While Christmas is celebrated on Dec 25, Easter does not fall on a fixed day of the year but it is observed on the first Sunday after the calendar full moon, i.e. the 14th day of the calendar moon - which happens on or next after 21 March. Easter is such a major religious holiday. Yet nowhere in the Bible—not in the book of Acts, which covers several decades of the history of the early Church, nor in any of the epistles of the New Testament, written over a span of 30 to 40 years after Jesus Christ's death and resurrection—do we find the apostles or early Christians celebrating anything like Easter.
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines: "Easter: The English term, according to the [eighth-century monk] Bede, relates to Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring, which deity, however, is otherwise unknown . . ." (1909, Vol. 5, p. 224). Eostre is the ancient European name for the same goddess worshipped by the Babylonians as Astarte or Ishtar, goddess of fertility,  whose major celebration was in the spring of the year.

Easter isn't a Christian or directly biblical term, but comes from a form of the name Astarte, a Chaldean (Babylonian) goddess known as "the queen of heaven." (She is mentioned by that title in the Bible in Jeremiah 7:18 and 44:17-19, 25 and referred to in 1 Kings 11:5, 33 and 2 Kings 23:13 by the Hebrew form of her name, Ashtoreth. So "Easter" is found in the Bible—as part of the pagan religion God condemns!)
Notice what The Encyclopaedia Britannica says about this transition: "There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic Fathers . . . The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals foreshadowed . . . "The Gentile Christians, on the other hand, unfettered by Jewish traditions, identified the first day of the week [Sunday] with the Resurrection, and kept the preceding Friday as the commemoration of the crucifixion, irrespective of the day of the month" (11th edition, p. 828, "Easter").
Easter does not accurately represent Jesus Christ's suffering, death and resurrection, though it appears to do so to those who blindly accept religious tradition. In fact, it distorts the truth of the matter. Easter correctly belongs to the Babylonian goddess it is named after—Astarte, also known as Ashtoreth or Ishtar, whose worship is directly and explicitly condemned in the Bible. The ancient religious practices and fertility symbols associated with her cult existed long before Christ, and regrettably they have largely replaced and obscured the truth of His death and resurrection.
In Matt.12: 40, Jesus (Yahshua) told his disciples that ’as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth’.  Friday afternoon to Sunday morning is not three days and three nights. I can count only two nights and one and one-half nights. So would you say the Jesus (Yahshua) was not correct when he gave the sign of Jonah? Or did he not fulfill the prophecy?
Christ never commanded his disciples to celebrate his resurrection. He did however ask them to celebrate his death. 1COR 11: 25,26 ".... This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.'' For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.'' The occasion was the Last Supper on the evening before the crucifixion. The disciples were gathered together to eat the Passover meal. On the evening of the fourteenth day of Nisan, the Israelites sacrificed a lamb and roasted it over the fire. They ate the lamb that night together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. It was instituted as a perpetual memorial of the night that the Lord passed over the houses of the Children of Israel in Egypt and delivered them from slavery. And so every year at the time of Passover the disciples met together and shared the wine and the unleavened bread in memory of Christ's death. Soon after all the twelve disciples died, some churches including the church in Rome began to keep the Sunday after passover as their day on which the Lord's Supper should be held each year. The Lord's Supper's was thus removed from it's Old Testament origins. This was the deliberate intention of the Emperor Constantine who detested every association with the Jews. In a letter to the churches Constantine wrote, "Concerning the most holy day of Passover, it was decreed by common consent to be expedient, that this festival should be celebrated on the same day by all,......... Let us then have nothing in common with the most hostile rabble of the Jews.'' In the Britain during the 8th century, the name "Easter'' was adopted for the paschal season and its link with Passover was further obscured. "Eostur'' was the heathen festival of the goddess of spring which was traditionally celebrated at this time. And so Easter came into being with all its pagan trappings. Eggs, Rabbits, Easter buns etc. are all derived from spring festivals and the worship of heathen dieties. Refer to any good encyclopaedia and study for yourself the pagan origins of Easter festivities. Is this the way that the Lord would have us worship?
When confronted with these facts about Easter, many professing Christians might raise this question to justify its continuance: With millions of well-meaning Christians observing Easter, doesn't this please Jesus Christ? Yet He has already answered this question in Matthew 15:9: "In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men." How will you choose to worship Him—in spirit and in truth, or in fraud and in fable?