Luke 22:7
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
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ASV
And 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.
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Commentary
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The cups on the table
Luke alone records TWO cups (22:17, 22:20), and the detail is at home in the feast: the Passover meal was ordered around four cups of wine, a structure already fixed in the Mishnah, the first written code of Jewish oral law (Pesachim 10:1). Passover (Pesach) is the spring feast remembering the exodus; its meal, the seder (“order”), moved through blessing, story, and psalm with a cup at each station. Jesus takes the feast's own furniture, and at the cup after supper says the words that made it new: “this cup... is the new covenant in my blood.”
The seder as Jewish families keep it today descends from the same order, reshaped after the Temple fell in AD 70; the lamb on the table then is matzah and remembrance now.
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10:1 (the four cups) · The Lord's Supper (this site's study)
Original language & word study
12 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἦλθεν | Ēlthen | Came | G2064 → |
| δὲ | de | then | G1161 → |
| ἡ | hē | the | G3588 → |
| ἡμέρα | hēmera | day | G2250 → |
| τῶν | tōn | <the> | G3588 → |
| ἀζύμων | azumōn | of Unleavened [Bread] | G106 → |
| ἐν | en | on | G1722 → |
| ᾗ | hē | which | G3739 → |
| ἔδει | edei | it was necessary for | G1163 → |
| θύεσθαι | thuesthai | to be sacrificed | G2380 → |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → |
| πάσχα. | pascha | Passover lamb. | G3957 → |
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