What Does Luke 22:7 Mean in the King James?

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

Luke 22:7 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The Greek says the Passover must be sacrificed: the day of deliverance is marked by a life offered up.

THE MEANING

The appointed day arrives, and the Passover is to be sacrificed. Deliverance here is bound to the concrete reality of a life slain, not separated from death as an abstraction. The verse holds release and loss together without smoothing either away.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that the Passover is only a meal or remembrance: the verse names sacrifice as necessary to it.

THE ROOT

θύεσθαι

thýesthai from thýō

GROWS FROM

θύω

thýō

To offer in sacrifice; in the passive form here, to be sacrificed.

English “killed” gives the death, while ⁨θύεσθαι⁩ places it in the language of sacrifice. The root holds slaughter and offering together, so the Passover is enacted through a life given.

ALSO GROWS

thysía: A sacrifice or offering.

θυσία

The noun names the offering implicit in “killed”: this death is an act of sacrifice.

thýma: A victim or animal offered in sacrifice.

θύμα

This branch keeps the verse’s action concrete: a living being becomes the offering.

THE PATTERN

Deliverance is marked by a life offered in sacrifice.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

Exodus 12:21 · KJVThe Passover is identified with the lamb that is killed, joining deliverance to sacrifice.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isaiah 53:7 · KJVThe servant’s deliverance-shaped path is pictured through a lamb brought to slaughter.

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1 Corinthians 5:7 · KJVThe Passover is named as sacrificed, carrying the pattern of deliverance through an offered life.

THE THREAD

Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

1 Corinthians 5:7 · KJV

The Greek uses the same verb-root, ⁨θύω⁩, for Luke’s “must be killed” and “is sacrificed” here. It also calls Christ “our passover,” making the sacrificial sense inside Luke’s wording visible.

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