Luke 22:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then the day came for the Festival of Unleavened Bread [to be held], on which the Passover [lamb] was to be sacrificed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover [lamb] had to be slain. [Exod. 12:18-20; Deut. 16:5-8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

The Day of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover had to be sacrificed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the day of Unleavened Bread arrived, on which it was necessary to kill the Pascal lamb.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 22:7 Cross References

Luke 22:1

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching. [Note: This was the annual Jewish festival commemorating Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage under Moses’ leadership].

Luke 22:6

So Judas consented [to their offer] and looked for a [good] opportunity to turn Jesus over to them [i.e., the Jewish leaders] when the crowd was not present.

1 Corinthians 5:7

Get rid of the old yeast [i.e., of sin, and especially the unrepentant sinner], so that you can be a new batch of dough, without yeast in it [i.e., a godly church without unrepentant sinners in it] as [I know] you really are. For our Passover [Lamb], Christ, has already been sacrificed.