Mark 14:12

And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover? For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 22:7; ; and at John 13:10; John 13:18; John 13:21....

12-21 Nothing could be less the result of human foresight than the events here related. But our Lord knows all things about us before they come to pass. If we admit him, he will dwell in our hearts. The Son of man goes, as it is written of him, as a lamb to the slaughter; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed! God's permitting the sins of men, and bringing glory to himself out of them, does not oblige them to sin; nor will this be any excuse for their guilt, or lessen their punishment....

See the notes at Matthew 26:17. Mark 14:12 THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER - The “paschal lamb,” which was slain in keeping the Passover. GO AND PREPARE - Go and provide a lamb, have it roasted, and properly prepared with the usual things to eat with it. Mark 14:13 THE CITY - The city of Jerusalem. They were now in Bethany, about 2 miles from the city. A MAN BEARING A PITCHER OF WATER - This could have been known only by the infinite knowledge of Christ. Such a thing could not have been conjectured, nor was there any concer

EXPOSITION MARK 14:1 NOW AFTER TWO DAYS WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER AND THE UNLEAVENED BREAD; literally, _the passover and the unleavened _τό πάσχα καὶ τὰ ἄζυμα. It was one and the same festival. The killing of the Paschal lamb took place on the first of the seven days during which the festival lasted, and during the whole of which they used unleavened bread. Josephus describes it as "the festival of the unleavened, called _Phaska _by the Jews." THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES. St. Matthew (Matthew 26:3) says, "The chief priests and the elders of the people." The two classes in the Sanhedrim who actually combined to put our Lord to death were those here mentioned by St. Mark. They sought how th

AND THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD,.... Being come, which was the fourteenth of Nisan: WHEN THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER; that is, "the Jews", as the Syriac and Persic versions supply; for any Israelite, that not a priest, might slay it: their canon runs thus x, "an Israelite kills (the passover), and a priest receives (the blood), and gives it to his neighbour, and his neighbour to his neighbour, and he receives (the basin) full, and returns it empty; the priest that is near to the altar sprinkles it, at one sprinkling, over against the bottom of it.'' Upon which the commentators y observe, that the slaying of the passover by strangers; that is, such as are not priests, lawful. And so Philo the Jew, speaking of the passover, says z; "at which time the common people do not bring their sacrifices to the altar, and the priests slay; but by the command of the law, συμπαν το εθνος, "the w...

PART IV. GIVING HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR -- CHAPTER S 14-15. Chapter 14 _ 1. Seeking by Craft to put Him to Death. (Mark 14:1 .Matthew 26:2; Luke 22:1 .)_ 2. The Anointing. (Mark 14:3. Matthew 26:6; John 12:1) 3. Judas offers to betray Him. (Mark 14:10 .Matthew 26:14;...

PREPARATION FOR THE LAST SUPPER. Mk. regards the last supper as the Passover; contrast John 13:29; John 18:28; John 19:14. In this incident Jesus shows a supernatural knowledge of circumstances as yet unrealised, as in the case of the triumphal entry (Mark 11:1 f.). But is it not possible that here we have some pre-arrangement intended to baffle Judas and the chief priests? The room, at any rate, is ready, furnished with carpets and couches....

THE LAST ACT BEGINS (Mark 14:1-2)...

THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD. This was the 14th of Nisan; the first day of the Feast, the 15th of Nisan, was the "high day": the great sabhnth, See App-156. Moreover, "the preparation "had not yet been made. See note on Matthew 26:17. KILLED. were wont to kill. THE PASSOVER. _Pascha.,_ Aramaic. App-94. Put by Figure of speech _metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the lamb. It was this that was killed and eaten....

Preparations for the Last Supper 12. _the first day of unleavened bread_ Wednesday in Passion week would seem to have been spent by our Lord in deep seclusion at Bethany preparing Himself for the awfulness of the coming struggle, and is hidden by a veil of holy silence. That night He slept at Bethany for the last time on earth. "On the Thursday morning He awoke never to sleep again." Farrar, _Life_, ii. p. 275. _when they killed the passover_ i. e. THE PASCHAL VICTIM. Comp. Luke 22:7, "when the _Passover_must be _killed;_" 1 Corinthians 5:7, "Christ _our Passover_(_Paschal Lamb_) is sacrificed for us." The name of the Passover, in Hebrew _Pesach_, and in Aramæan and Greek _Pascha_, is derived from a root which means to "step over," or to "o