15And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-20)What a hopeful prospect had we of Christ’s doing a great deal of good by his preaching in the temple during the feast of unleavened bread, which continued seven days, when the people were every morning, and early in the morning, so attentive to hear him! But here is a stop put to it. He must enter upon work of another kind; in this, however, he shall do more good than in the other, for neither Chr…
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