Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed.
Parallel translations
- WEB The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.
- KJV Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.
- BSB Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- NASB Now the first day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
- NLT Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed.
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Quick answer
The day came when the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
Overview
Luke notes the arrival of the day of preparation when lambs were slain for the Passover meal. The detail heightens the significance of Jesus as the true Passover Lamb about to be offered. Redemptive history converges as the appointed time draws near.
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Cross-references · 6
- Exod 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.
- Mark 14:12–16On 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?”
- 1 Cor 5:7Purge 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.
- Exod 12:6and 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.
- Matt 26:17–19Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
- Luke 22:1Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
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