(7-13) Then came the day of unleavened bread. — See Notes on Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12. St. Luke, like St. Mark, writing for Gentiles, adds the explanatory note, “when the Passover must be killed,” or, better, sacrificed. (Comp. “Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us,” in 1 Corinthians 5:7.)

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