1Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
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And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. …
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves. …
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. …
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified. …
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)The year of the redeemed is now come , which had been from eternity fixed in the divine counsels, and long looked for by them that waited for the consolation of Israel. After the revolutions of many ages, it is at length come , Isa. 63:4. And, it is observable, it is in the very first month of that year that the redemption is wrought out, so much in haste was the Redeemer to perform his undertakin…
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