by label licker 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
How could the passover be on the same day as feast of unleaven bread? Matthew 26:17 says it was the first day of unleaven cakes/bread and they were asking where to prepare the passover. But Leviticus says the passover was on the fourteenth and the feast of unleaven bread/cakes was on the fifteenth, next day after passover. Was there a mistranslation here in Matthew? This is a question for believers only, please. Thank you:)
LL
I looked at this very briefly at one point, and if I recall, I think it was because that particular passover when Jesus ate with his apostles was a double passover with that week being a great sabbath (John 19:31) (not only a regular weekly sabbath, but because the passover and the sabbath fell on the same day). I don't recall much else about this one, but this has something to do with it, I think.
The day of preparation is the day before the feast of unleaven bread/cakes. Because it falls on the weekly sabbath, and it's a holy convention and the two fall on the same day it's a high sabbath. So this doesn't change the fact that what he said in Leviticus 23:5 and on that the passover was on the fourteenth and feast of unleaven bread was on the fifteenth. Day of preparation is always the day before. The passover was still the passover. The only thing special about it was that it was his last one.
I'm just wondering why in Matthew it says they were getting ready for the passover on the day of feast of unleavened bread. Yet in Leviticus it was two seperate daysThe fourteenth of Nisan was to be the passover and fifteenth was to be the feast of unleavened bread. Two seperate days. Matthew is reading that these two days were on one day.
I am just adding this so I can read everything together! Enjoy the topic.
English Standard Version (ESV)
12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.[ a ]
7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on thetwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is theLord's Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day,that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened
Label licker.....What's funny is that they did it on the wrong time... Monday the 14th on sundown would be in Jewish time the beginning of Nisan 15 which is when they ate the Passover meal..lol So Sunday the 13th on sundown is when Nisan 14 starts which is called The day of preparation,or as Mathew calls it the day of unleavened bread... which is when the lamb is slaughter in the temple...the New testament says Jesus was nailed at 9.00 AM ...third hour jewish time...and died at 3.00 PM ...nineth hour jewish time which is when the Jews would go to the temple to have the sheep slaughtered, which gave them a three hours time to prepare and roast there lamb for the passover meal, that would start around sundown, which came around 6:00 PM. So what that tells you is ....that Jesus did not eat passover because that night he would be taken...and die as the lamb....what he had was a regular last evening meal with his followers...to prepare them for what was to come, so it was in that setting that he did the ritual of bread and wine with them....on the 14th of Nisan the day of preparation or the day of unleavened bread. not to be confused with the FEAST ...so it was on Nisan 15 is when the FEAST of unleavened bread began and at the same time on the first day of the FEAST they ate the lamb counting seven days from the 15 to 21 .to eat unleavened bread.
Just in case some one out there says wait the New teastment is wrong in John 19:14 it says sixth hour jesus was already hung but in Mathew 27:45 it said the sixth hour the darkness happened...so something is wrong here ..No in john Gospel the sixth hour is 9;00 am he using Roman time.. in Mathew he using Jewish time so sixth hour would be around 12:00pm.
