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

⁷ 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

⁷ Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ 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)

⁷ And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed.

Common English Bible

⁷ The Day of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover had to be sacrificed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ 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.