Matthew 26:2

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 14:1....

1-5 Our Lord had often told of his sufferings as at a distance, now he speaks of them as at hand. At the same time the Jewish council consulted how they might put him to death secretly. But it pleased God to defeat their intention. Jesus, the true paschal Lamb, was to be sacrificed for us at that very time, and his death and resurrection rendered public....

Verse Matthew 26:2. _THE PASSOVER_] A feast instituted in Egypt, to commemorate the destroying angel's _passing over_ the houses of the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn of the Egyptians. See the whole of this business largely explained in the Notes on Exodus 12:1. This feast began on the fourteenth day of the first moon, in the first month, Nisan, and it lasted only _one_ day; but it was immediately followed by the days of _unleavened bread_, which were _seven_, so that the whole lasted eight days, and all the eight days are sometimes called the feast of the passover, and sometimes the _feast_ or _days of unleavened bread_. See Luke 22:1. The three most signal benefits vouchsafed to the...

AFTER TWO DAYS IS - the feast of the Passover. See the notes at Matthew 12:1. The festival of the Passover was designed to preserve among the Jews the memory of their liberation from Egyptian servitude, and of the safety of their first-born in that night when the firstborn of the Egyptians perished, Exodus 12. The name “Passover” was given to the feast because the Lord “passed over” the houses of the Israelites without slaying their first-born, while the Egyptians were cut off, Exodus 12:13. It was celebrated seven days, namely, from the 15th to the 21st of the month Abib or Nisan (April),...

EXPOSITION Ch. 26-28:20 THUS JESUS ENTERS UPON HIS KINGDOM. Before attempting to expound this most momentous section of the gospel history, we must make up our minds concerning the solution of the difficulties which are involved in some details in the account of the Supper. The supposed discrepancy between the narrative of the synoptists and that of St. John has exercised the minds of commentators from the earliest times unto the present, and enormous ingenuity has been expended in endeavouring to harmonize what are regarded as conflicting statements. The two chief difficulties are these: According to the synoptists, as generally understood, our Lord and his apostles ate the Passover, _i.e. _the Paschal lamb, when he instituted the Holy Communion; according to St. John, the death of Christ took place before the Passover was celebrated. Hence

YE KNOW THAT AFTER TWO DAYS IS [THE FEAST OF] THE PASSOVER,.... Which was kept in commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt; and was typical of Christ the passover, who was now to be sacrificed for his people. This was said on Tuesday, and on the Thursday following, the passover began. Christ speaks of this as a thing well known to the disciples, as it must be, since it always began on a certain day, the fourteenth of the month Nisan; which month answered to part of our March, and part of our April; and though there was very frequently an intercalation of a whole month in a year, made by the sanhedrim, to keep their festivals regularly in the proper season of the year; yet previous public notice was always given of this, either by fixing a paper upon the door of the sanhedrim r, signifying such an intercalation made, which served for the inhabitants of Jerusalem; or b...

13. THE PASSION OF THE KING. Chapter s 26-27. CHAPTER 26 1. His Death Planned. (Matthew 26:1 .) 2. Mary of Bethany Anointing the King.(Matthew 26:6 .) 3. The Betrayal. (Matthew 26:14 .) 4. The Last Passover.(Matthew 26:17 .) 5. The Lord's Supper Instituted.(Matthew 26:26 .) 6. Peter's Denial Announced and the Scattered Sheep.(Matthew 26:30 .) 7. In Gethsemane. ...

THE DECISION OF THE CHIEF PRIESTS (Mark 14:1 f.*). Mt. enlarges a simple statement of fact into a prediction by Jesus, and places the meeting of the conspirators in the house of Caiaphas. Luke 22:1 f. is briefer even than Mk....

When Jesus had completed all these sayings, he said to his disciples. "You know that in two days time it is the Passover Feast, and the Son of Man is going to be delivered to be crucified." At that time the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the High Priest, who was called Caiaphas, and took counsel together to seize Jesus by guile and to kill him. They said, "Not at the time of the Feast, lest a tumult arise among the people." Here then is the definite beginning of the last act of the divine tragedy. Once again Jesus warned his disciples of what was to come. For the last few days he had been acting with such magnificent defiance that they might have thought he proposed to defy the Jewish authorities; but here once again he makes it clear that his aim is the Cross. At the same time the Jewish authorities were laying their plots and stratagems. Joseph...

YE KNOW. Greek. _oida._ App-132. AFTER. Greek. _meta._ AFTER TWO DAYS, &C. See App-156. IS. takes place, or cometh. Greek. _ginomai._ See note on "fulfilled", Luke 21:32. PASSOVER. Greek. _pascha,_ an Aramaic word. Hebrew. _pesach._ App-94. THE SON OF MAN. See App-98. BETRAYED. delivered up. The Present Tense is the Figure of speech _Prolepsis_ (App-6). See note on "ye slew", Matthew 23:35. TO. for: i.e. for the purpose of. Greek. _eis._ App-104. CRUCIFIED. hung upon. stake. Greek. _stauros_ was not two pieces of wood at any angle. It was an upright pale or stake. Same as _xulon,_. piece of timber ...