This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the […]
⛓ Read Exodus 12 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Luke explicitly times the arrest 'during the days of unleavened bread' and intends to bring Peter out 'after the Passover,' anchoring the whole episode in the Exodus 12 festival calendar. The verbal marker (azuma / pascha) is direct, and the placement is deliberate: the coming deliverance of Peter is staged against the festival commemorating Israel's deliverance.
High confidenceThe warning to 'beware of the yeast/leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod' trades on the Passover prohibition of leaven, where leaven symbolizes corruption to be purged. The figural valence of leaven as pervasive moral contamination is rooted in the unleavened-bread legislation.
Medium confidence