Luke 22:8 — Community Reflections

LUKE 22:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.”

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover — Peter and John sent ahead: the two closest disciples commissioned for the Passover preparation. The specific assignment communicates Jesus' intentional celebration of the Passover before his death.

Church Fathers on Luke 22:8

Our Lord, in order to leave us a heavenly Passover, ate a typical one, removing the figure, that the truth might take its place.
TITUS BOST ·

By the day of unleavened bread of the Passover, He means the fourteenth day of the first month, the day on which, having put away the leaven, they were accustomed to hold the Passover, that is, the lamb, towards evening.
Bede · 8th century

But should any one say, “If on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples of our Savior prepare the Passover, on that day then should we also celebrate the Passover;” we answer, that this was not an admonition, but a history of the fact. It is what took place at the time of the saving Passion; but it is one thing to relate past events, another to sanction and leave them an ordinance to posterity. Moreover, the Savior did not keep His Passover with the Jews at the time…
Eusebius of Caesarea · 4th century

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