Compare & Correlate · Explicit
The Passover lamb
Exodus 12 beside the death of Jesus, with the linking verse printed on every row that has one. Four rows carry a New Testament verse that cites the Passover directly. The rest are read that way by a long tradition and are drawn without an arrow, because no verse makes the connection.
Explicit: A later verse makes this link, and it is printed on the arrow.
The Passover lamb. Explicit — a later text makes this connection, and the verse that makes it is printed on the arrow.
Where the sources disagree: which day the death falls on. Both are shown; neither is resolved.
- John 19:14 — the day of preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour — the lambs not yet killed
- Mark 14:12 — on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, the supper is the Passover meal
Sources:
- Hebrew references verified against the annotated corpus; Greek references checked against SBLGNT for existence only — their words are not machine-verified, because the figure layer holds no Greek tokens (docs/compare-and-correlate.md §4).
Row by row
| Exodus 12 | The gospels and the letters | |
|---|---|---|
| A lamb without blemish | a lamb without blemish, a male, a year oldExodus 12:5 | a lamb without blemish or spot1 Peter 1:19 |
| Linking verse: 1 Peter 1:19 — “ransomed with the precious blood of a lamb without blemish” | ||
| No bone broken | you shall not break a bone of itExodus 12:46 | they did not break his legsJohn 19:33 |
| Linking verse: John 19:36 — “that the scripture might be fulfilled: not one of his bones shall be broken” | ||
| The rule is repeated for the second Passover at Numbers 9:12. | ||
| The lamb is killed | the whole assembly kills it at twilightExodus 12:6 | Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed1 Corinthians 5:7 |
| Linking verse: 1 Corinthians 5:7 — “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” | ||
| Taken away | the lamb of the household, kept and then killedExodus 12:3 | behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the worldJohn 1:29 |
| Linking verse: John 1:29 — “behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” | ||
| Blood on the doorposts | blood on the two doorposts and the lintelExodus 12:7 | no New Testament verse cites this |
| Read christologically since the second century; the connection is a tradition's, not a text's. | ||
| Hyssop | a bunch of hyssop, dipped in the bloodExodus 12:22 | hyssop appears at the cross (John 19:29) and the verse makes no claim about ExodusJohn 19:29 |
| The word is shared; the assertion is not. John cites Exodus for the bones and not for the hyssop. | ||
| Eaten by the household | in one house; nothing carried outsideExodus 12:46 | no New Testament verse cites this |
Where it appears in the text
- Exodus 12 — the Passover, its lamb and its rules, given here
- Numbers 9 — the second Passover, repeating the rule about the bones
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