Exodus 12:6

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  “By doing so, he reveals that Jesus is at the same time the suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover.” — Catechism footnote: Is 53:7, 12; cf. Jer 11:19; Ex 12:3-14; Jn 19:36; 1 Cor 5:7.

Tertullian

• Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 8

  “…on the eighth day before the calends of April, on the first day of unleavened bread, on which they slew the lamb at even, just as had been enjoined by Moses.” — editor's note: Comp. Ex. xii. 6 with Mark xiv. 12, Luke xxii. 7.

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• Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews Chapter 10

  “…to eat this solemn sacrifice of this day (that is, of the passover of unleavened bread) with bitterness;” and added that “it was the passover of the Lord,” that is, the passion of Christ.” — editor's note: See Ex. xii. 1–11.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History V.24Book V

  “And my relatives always observed the day when the people put away the leaven.” — editor's note: i.e. the Jews. The passover feast among the Jews took place on the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan, and was eaten with unleavened bread (Ex. xii. 6 et…

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 62

  “It behoved Christ to offer about the evening of the day, that the very hour of sacrifice might show the setting and the evening of the world; as it is written in Exodus, “And all the people of the synagogue of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening.”” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 6.

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• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.16Book II

  “But thus ye shall eat it; your loins girt, and your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hands; and ye shall eat it in haste: for it is the Lord’s passover.”” — editor's note: Ex. xii. 3–12.

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Parallel passages

• Numbers 9:3

  Exodus 12:6 and Numbers 9:3 share the same wording (12 words).

Cited together with

• Acts 5:29

  Cited together in Church History V.24.