“And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.”
The Jewish Passover festival was near. — the Passover setting is theologically laden: Jesus' feeding of 5000 at Passover anticipates the Passover Lamb's self-sacrifice (19:36). The festival frames the entire discourse as Eucharistic anticipation.
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