Last Supper a Passover Meal?

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While the Catechism P 1340 says the Last Supper meal was a Passover meal, the Jerome Biblical Commentary says that it was not.

The point is, the synoptics say that it was, but in John’s gospel, chapter 19 around v31 it seems to say that Jesus was crucified and died on the preparation day for the Passover.

I don’t know if this contradiction of catechism and commentary can be easily solved. I wish it were so.

Part of the problem seems to be with the translation of words for passover and sabbath in the text of John. There may be a larger question of relevance because the feast of unleaved bread may have been a week in length, not just a day, right?

And, if you’re still with me, there’s a question of divine sovereignty. If Jesus directed his apostles to prepare the Passover on a day preceding the Jewish Passover, I think that day would be the quintissential Passover, whether it was the 15th of the month of Nisan or not.

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The Last Supper was a mutated Passover meal. Several verses in the Passion narratives hint that there were two holy days that week. Passover, and a second day for which the day of Jesus’ crucifixion was the preparation day.
 
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The Last Supper was a mutated Passover meal. Several verses in the Passion narratives hint that there were two holy days that week. Passover, and a second day for which the day of Jesus’ crucifixion was the preparation day.
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Exactly. That is what I thought and what I’ve heard. I’m dealing with a person who is fundamentalist about the J. Commentary.
 
I’ve heard that the Last Supper was both a Passover and a Todah at the same time.

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The Last Supper was a mutated Passover meal. Several verses in the Passion narratives hint that there were two holy days that week. Passover, and a second day for which the day of Jesus’ crucifixion was the preparation day.
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I don’t think a second holy day specifically other than the weekly sabbath. Not meaning to downplay that days importance.
 
There were four feast celebrated early in the Jewish year. Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits were celebrated in the first month of the Jewish calendar, Nisan. They combined the commemoration of the first Passover with a memorial of the first harvest in the Promised Land. Fifty days later, Shavnot, what we later called Pentecost, celebrates both the full harvest and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai.

Jesus died on the afternoon of Passover, a day on which a lamb was slain and eaten to commemorate the sparing of the firstborn of Israel. Just as the blood of the lamb was splashed on the wooden doorposts of the households of Israel to ensure their salvation as the angel of death struck the firstborn of Egypt, so now in Christ, the blood of the slain Lamb of God is splashed on the wooden cross, saving us from the death of sin. On the day we call Holy Saturday, while the Jews celebrated the rejection of sin on the feast of Unleavened Bread, the body of Jesus, who had offered Himself as the bread of life and had definitively defeated sin by His death on the Cross, lay in the Tomb. And on Easter Sunday morning, Jesus revealed Himself as what St. Paul would later call “the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Cor. 15:20). And this He did on the very day that the Jews called First Fruits! So, Jesus instituted the Eucharist and died on Passover, lay buried during the feast of Unleavened Bread, and rose on First Fruits.

As we know on the first Christian Pentecost - the day during which the Jews were celebrating the harvest and the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai fifty days after the Exodus - the promise of the first fruits, seen in Christ’s Resurrection, finds its fulfillment in the sending of the Holy Spirit and a harvest of 3000 souls from every nation of the Jewish Diaspora. It is worth noting that, at the giving of the Law at Mt. Sinai, 3000 died as a consequence of their failure of faith and the subsequent idolatrous worship of the golden calf (Ex. 32:28), whereas on this fulfillment of the Jewish Pentecost, 3000 die to sin in the waters of Baptism and come to new life in the Risen Christ.

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*It’s interesting to note that on the 10th of the month, the Passover Lamb was set apart from the flock and kept in the household until its sacrifice on the 14th. That 10th day would have coincided with the triumphal entry of Jesus into the city of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. So just as Israel was choosing its lambs for slaughter, Jesus was likewise being chosen by the crowds who acclaimed Him. Four Days later, on the Passover day celebrating God’s sparing of the firstborn, His firstborn Son will spare Himself nothing in saving us

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