For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.”
- BSB For I tell you that I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
- NKJV for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
- NASB for I say to you, I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
- NLT For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”
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Quick answer
Jesus says He will not eat the Passover again until it is fulfilled in God's Kingdom. He points beyond this meal to the consummation of redemption.
Overview
Jesus declares that the Passover finds its true fulfillment in the Kingdom of God, which His death and resurrection inaugurate. He looks ahead to the great feast believers will share with Him in the consummated Kingdom. The old covenant meal is being transformed by the One who is its ultimate meaning.
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Cross-references · 9
- Rev 19:9And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
- Luke 14:15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
- Luke 22:30That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- John 6:50–58This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
- Acts 10:41Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
- Heb 10:1–10For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
- John 6:27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
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