This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord — a lasting ordinance. The Passover is not a once-for-all historical event that is then superseded; it is an annual feast that continues the testimony across generations. Commemorate — zikaron — means memorial, a word that carries the sense of making past events present. The annual Passover is not merely remembering what happened but participatorily re-enacting it: every generation in every Passover is present at the Exodus. Luke 22:19 records Jesus at the Last Supper saying do this in remembrance of me — the same word for memorial. The Lord's Supper inherits from the Passover not just the content but the logic: a meal that makes a past event present, that incorporates the participant into the saving act.

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