They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
⛓ 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.
The detail that the Passover is eaten in a furnished room with prepared provisions echoes the Exodus stipulation to eat the roasted lamb with unleavened bread that night. Coherent with the meal's redemptive typology, though the lexical contact is general.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The instruction to 'prepare' the Passover and to eat it in a guest room invokes the Exodus regulation that the lamb be eaten roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs that same night. The preparatory action presupposes the full Exodus rubric, supplying the meal's content even where Mark abbreviates.
Medium confidence◇ Figural5
A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.
'Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed' figurally identifies Jesus with the paschal lamb 'roast with fire, and unleavened bread' eaten that night. High Volume and Coherence: the lamb's sacrifice is the ground for keeping the feast 'with the unleavened bread of sincerity,' a paradigmatic figural reading of Exodus 12.
High confidence'They shall eat the flesh that night' — the paschal lamb whose flesh is consumed. Jesus' demand to eat his flesh, set 'at Passover,' identifies him as the lamb; high typological Coherence binding the discourse to the chapter's opening note (v.4).
High confidenceThe accusers avoid defilement so they may 'eat the Passover,' even as they deliver the true Passover lamb to slaughter, a Johannine irony tied to the Exodus 12 paschal meal. The Coherence with John's paschal-lamb chronology (19:14, 19:36) gives the figural Passover framing real weight in this transitional pericope.
Medium confidencethe Passover bread and the slain lamb stand behind the bread Jesus identifies as 'my body' and the cup as 'my blood,' refiguring the seder elements around himself.
Medium confidenceThe breaking of bread that opens their eyes carries Passover/Eucharistic overtones, the meal at which deliverance is remembered and made present. Given Luke's Passover framing of the Last Supper, the Emmaus bread figurally recalls the Passover bread of redemption. Typological rather than verbal, hence low and contested.
Low confidence