“‘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 seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. You shall observe the feast […]
⛓ 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Luke dates the Troas voyage 'after the days of Unleavened Bread,' invoking the Passover/Massot calendar prescribed here. The festival reference is precise and structural (it anchors the chronology), though it functions as a time-marker rather than an interpretive citation; volume is moderate, recurrence in Luke-Acts of festal dating is real (cf. Pentecost in v.16).
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Leaven's pervasive, hidden spread plays against the Passover law that purges all leaven as corruption, making the Kingdom's leaven a pointed reversal of the usual negative valence. Contested and figural; the parable's positive use of leaven only registers against this background.
Low confidence