The Last Week and the Lamb

Words from the Passion and the Passover that anchors it

The Last Week of Jesus's life lands in the words Israel had been using since Exodus. Seh — the Passover lamb. Ayil — the ram caught in the thicket. Arbayim — "between the two evenings," the precise hour the lamb is killed. Then in the Greek: paradidomi — handed over. Mastigoo — scourged. Tetelestai — It is finished. Eli, Eli, lama — the Aramaic cry from the cross.

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