Bible Strands
Luke 22:16
For I tell you that I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus addresses His disciples during the Last Supper, speaking immediately after declaring His eagerness to share the Passover with them before His suffering.
The words — ouketi (no longer) and phagō (I eat) frame the declaration that the current meal will not be repeated until a future fulfillment.
The thread — The motif of a future messianic banquet runs through Luke 14:15 and Revelation 19:9, while Luke 22:30 explicitly links the disciples' future table fellowship to the kingdom.
Why it lands — The text postpones the Passover observance until the kingdom's fulfillment, requiring a reader to fix their expectation on a future divine banquet rather than present ritual alone.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Cross-references
- Luke 14:15 When one of those reclining with Him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is everyone who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
- Revelation 19:9 Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
- Luke 22:30 so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- John 6:50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
- John 6:27 Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval.”
- Acts 10:41 not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.