Luke 22:1
Good News Translation
The time was near for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near.

Contemporary English Version
The Festival of Thin Bread, also called Passover, was near.

New American Bible
Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was drawing near,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.

Exodus 12:6-23 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. . . .

Leviticus 23:5,6 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord. . . .

Matthew 26:2 You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

Mark 14:1,2,12 Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him. . . .

John 11:55-57 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:7,8 Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. . . .

Context
The Plot to Kill Jesus
1Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand. 2And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put Jesus to death: but they feared the people.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Matthew 26:2
You know that after two days shall be the pasch: and the Son of man shall be delivered up to be crucified.

Mark 14:1
Now the feast of the pasch and of the Azymes was after two days: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might by some wile lay hold on him and kill him.

Mark 14:2
But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people.

John 11:55
And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves.

John 13:1
Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Luke 21:38
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