20Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.
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And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. …
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)We have here an account of Christ’s keeping the passover. Being made under the law, he submitted to all the ordinances of it, and to this among the rest; it was kept in remembrance of Israel’s deliverance out of Egypt, the birth-day of that people; it was a tradition of the Jews, that in the days of the Messiah they should be redeemed on the very day of their coming out of Egypt; and it was exactl…
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