Passion & Last SupperLast SupperModerate
The Unleavened Bread
Written: ~1400 BC→Fulfilled: ~AD 30
The Festival of Unleavened Bread, representing purity and the removal of sin, is fulfilled in Christ's sinless sacrifice.
Prophecy & Fulfillment
Old Testament Prophecy
Exodus 12:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5:7-8
"For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast... Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt."
New Testament Fulfillment
1 Corinthians 5:7-8
"Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Commentary
Paul connects the Festival of Unleavened Bread to Christ's sacrifice: just as leaven (representing sin) was removed from Israelite homes, so Christ's sacrifice removes sin. The unleavened bread Jesus broke at the Last Supper ("This is my body") was the Passover bread, connecting his body to the sinless, unleavened bread of the festival.