Matthew 26:17-27:65

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-30

The Lord's Supper. The institution of the Holy Supper was in connection with the eating of the Passover. The occasion was most appropriate and significant; for the Jewish feast had been instituted to foreshadow what the Christian festival was founded to commemorate (see 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 ). The two sacraments of Christianity express all that was expressed in the entire circle of the ceremonial law, and more. All the washings are embodied in the sacrament of baptism; all the sacrifices... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 26:17-19

See also Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13.Matthew 26:17The first day ... - The feast continued “eight” days, including the day on which the paschal lamb was killed and eaten, Exodus 12:15. That was the fourteenth day of the month Abib, answering to parts of our March and April.Of unleavened bread - Called so because during those eight days no bread made with yeast or leaven was allowed to be eaten. Luke says, “in which the passover must be killed” - that is, in which the “paschal lamb,” or the lamb... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:17

Matthew 26:17. On the first day of unleavened bread Being Thursday, the fourteenth day of the first month, Exodus 12:6; Exodus 12:15. The disciples came, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare the passover? They meant at what house. And he said, Go into the city to such a man This implies that Jesus named the person to whom they were sent, though the evangelists have not thought it of importance to mention his name. He told them further, that on their entrance into the city they should... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:17-19

139. Jesus prepares the Passover (Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13)Normally the Jews killed the sacrificial lamb on the afternoon of Passover day, and ate it together in a meal that night (cf. Exodus 12:6,Exodus 12:8). Jesus knew he was to die as the sacrificial lamb on Passover day, and therefore he prepared the meal a day earlier. He would eat the meal with his disciples the evening before Passover, but probably without a lamb, since he himself was to be the lamb.Knowing that the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Matthew 26:17

the first day. The eating of the Passover took place on the fourteenth of Nisan. See Exodus 12:6 , Exodus 12:8 , Exodus 12:18 . Leviticus 23:5 .Numbers 9:3 ; Numbers 28:16 . The fifteenth was the high sabbath, the first day of the feast. See Numbers 28:17 . Where . . . ? This question shows that the date was the fourteenth of Nisan. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Matthew 26:17

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready the passover?Just what day of the week this was could never be known with positive certainty unless the exact year of the crucifixion could be determined. The first day of unleavened bread was the day before the preparation for the passover, namely the 13th of Nisan; and whether the Lord ate his last meal with the disciples on Wednesday or Thursday does not really matter. We do know... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Matthew 26:17-18

Matthew 26:17-18. Now, the first day of the feast, &c.— We learn from Mar 14:12 and Luk 22:7 that this was done the very day on which the paschal lamb was killed; for, though the feast of unleavened bread did not, properly speaking, begin till the 15th of the first month, as it is termedin Leviticus 23:5-6. Numbers 28:16-17.) yet they began to abstain from leavened bread on the evening of the 14th day. The passover [το πασχα ] means the paschal lamb; for the word is often used to denote the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 26:1-46

1. Preparations for Jesus’ crucifixion 26:1-46There were several events that led up to Jesus’ arrest. Matthew did not present them in strict chronological order but in a logical narrative order. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 26:17

The first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread would have been Thursday, the fourteenth of Nisan (cf. Exodus 12:18). [Note: For detailed discussions of the chronology of these last days, see Hoehner, Chronological Aspects . . ., pp. 81-93; Carson, "Matthew," pp. 528-32; and France, The Gospel . . ., pp. 980-85.] The Jews commonly spoke of Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread as the feast of Unleavened Bread. [Note: Josephus, Antiquities of . . ., 2:15:1.] "It was probably after the early... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Matthew 26:17-19

Preparations for the Passover 26:17-19 (cf. Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13) read more

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