Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
- KJV Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
- 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.
- 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 you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
- Lev 23:5–6In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s Passover.
- John 11:55–57Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
- Mark 14:1–2It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.
- Matt 26:2–5“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
- Mark 14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
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