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Every year, the Jews celebrated the Passover. This was a celebration of how God had saved their ancestors from slavery in Egypt many centuries earlier.
This is background information about the Jewish Passover. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)
many centuries earlier
That is, “hundreds of years earlier” or, “a very long time before.”
About three years after Jesus first began preaching and teaching publicly, Jesus told his disciples that he wanted to celebrate this Passover with them in Jerusalem, and that he would be killed there.
This is background information about why Jesus was in Jerusalem in the Passover, and what would happen to him there. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)