Luke 22:1
Meanwhile the Festival of the Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
In Context
2and the High Priests and the Scribes were contriving how to destroy Him. But they feared the people.
Cross References
Mark 14:1It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the High Priests and Scribes were bent on finding how to seize Him by stratagem and put Him to death.
John 11:55The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
Matthew Henry on Luke 22:1
All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins and rose for our justification, this evangelist as fully as any, and with many circumstances and passages added which we had not before. In this chapter we have, I. The plot to take Jesus, and Judas's coming into it, ver. 1-6 . II. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, ver. 7-18 . III. The instituting of the Lord's supper, ver. 19, 20 . IV. Christ's discourse with… Read the whole commentary →