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Luke 22:7

Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

KJV

Ἦλθεν δὲ ἡ ἡμέρα τῶν ἀζύμων, ἐν ᾗ ἔδει θύεσθαι τὸ πάσχα,

Greek NT

Venit autem dies azymorum, in qua necesse erat occidi pascha.

Vulgate

And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed.

ASV

And the day of the unleavened bread came, on which it was necessary that the pasch should be killed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δεῖ
dei
verb · 103×
θύω
thuo
verb · 14×
πάσχα
pascha
aramaic_word · 29×
ἄζυμος
azumos
adjective · 9×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ᾗ | WH/Treg/NIV: ᾗ | NA/RP: ἐν ᾗ
  • ᾗ — SBLGNT
  • ᾗ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐν ᾗ — Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1151Signs taken up by Christ. In his preaching the Lord Jesus often makes use of the signs of creation to make known the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.17 He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures.18 He gives new meaning to the deeds and signs of the Old Covenant, above all to the Exodus and the Passover,19 for he himself is the me…
§1339Jesus chose the time of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum: giving his disciples his Body and his Blood: Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the passover meal for us, that we may eat it...." They went ... and prepared the passover. and when the hour came…
2. But these things we ought not to pass by at random, but they should be instilled in our minds, and wrath would find no place at any time. For who, bearing in mind that supper, and the traitor sitting at meat with the Saviour of all, and Him who was to be betrayed thus meekly reasoning, would not put away all venom of wrath and anger? See at any rate how meekly He conducts Hi…
Was it necessary for Christ to suffer for men's deliverance? Was there any other possible means of delivering men? Was this the more suitable means? Was it fitting for Christ to suffer on the cross? The extent of His sufferings Was the pain which He endured the greatest? Did His entire soul suffer? Did His Passion hinder the joy of fruition? The time of the Passion The place Wa…

Cross-references

  • Exod 12:18 — In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
  • Exod 23:15 — Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none
  • Lev 23:5 — In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’s passover.
  • Mark 14:12 — 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?
  • Matt 26:17 — Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
  • Num 9:2 — Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.