On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Parallel translations
- WEB On 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?”
- KJV And 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?
- NKJV Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?”
- NASB On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- NLT On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go to prepare the Passover meal for you?”
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Quick answer
On the day of Passover preparation, the disciples ask where to prepare the meal. Jesus will keep the feast that he is about to fulfill.
Overview
As lambs were sacrificed for Passover, the disciples seek to arrange the meal for Jesus. The timing is rich with meaning: Jesus prepares to celebrate the feast of redemption on the eve of becoming its true and final fulfillment. The Lamb of God would soon be offered, transforming Passover into the Lord's Supper and the deliverance it pictured into salvation from sin.
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- Exod 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
- Lev 23:5–6The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- Num 28:16–18The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Matt 26:17–19On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
- 1 Cor 5:7–8Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Exod 12:18In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- Exod 12:8They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- Luke 22:7–13Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
- Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Exod 13:3So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Deut 16:1–4Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
- Matt 3:15“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
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