John 6:4
Good News Translation
The time for the Passover Festival was near.

New Revised Standard Version
Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.

New American Bible
The Jewish feast of Passover was near.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.

John 2:13 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 5:1 After these things was a festival day of the Jews: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 11:55 And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves.

John 12:1 Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

John 13:1 Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Exodus 12:6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

*etc:

Leviticus 23:5,7 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is the phase of the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
3Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his disciples. 4Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. 5When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

John 2:13
And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 6:3
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