What Does Luke 22:7 Mean?
Then the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover had to be slaughtered.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.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.
“slaughtered” in this verse is thýesthai from thýō. 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 to them, “Draw out and take for yourselves a lamb according to your families, and slaughter the Passover.”He was pressed, and he was bowed low, yet he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb he was led to the slaughter, and like a ewe before her shearers he was mute, so he did not open his mouth.Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even the Anointed One, our Passover, was slaughtered for us.THE THREAD
Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even the Anointed One, our Passover, was slaughtered for us.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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