Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
- BSB Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
- NKJV Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover.
- NASB Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
- NLT The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is also called Passover, was approaching.
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Quick answer
The Feast of Unleavened Bread, also called Passover, was drawing near.
Overview
Luke sets the events of the Passion during Israel's central redemptive feast, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. It is fitting that the true Passover Lamb would be sacrificed at this time. The timing reveals Jesus as the fulfillment of all the feast foreshadowed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Exod 12:6–23And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
- Lev 23:5–6In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
- John 11:55–57And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
- Mark 14:1–2After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
- Matt 26:2–5Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
- 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:
- Mark 14:12And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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