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.