Luk 22:8 | TNotes | STEP | 22:8 Go and prepare the Passover meal: The lamb was roasted and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread at the Passover meal (Exod 12:8 ; Num 9:11-12 ; Deut 16:3 ). The bitter herbs represented the bitterness of the Israelites’ slavery in Egypt, and the unleavened bread recalled their haste in leaving Egypt.

bExod 12:8►

cNum 9:11-12►

dDeut 16:3►

‏ Luke 22:8

22:8 ^a Go and prepare the Passover meal: The lamb was roasted and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread at the Passover meal (Exod 12:8 ^b; Num 9:11-12 ^c; Deut 16:3 ^d). The bitter herbs represented the bitterness of the Israelites’ slavery in Egypt, and the unleavened bread recalled their haste in leaving Egypt.