MARK 14:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.”
He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there — the large upper room upstairs, furnished and ready, is the description of the space already prepared. Make preparations there: the two disciples are to furnish the meal — the unleavened bread, the lamb (already sacrificed), the bitter herbs, the four cups of wine.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:15
He means by the first day of the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when they throw aside leaven, and were wont to sacrifice, that is, to kill the lamb at even. The Apostle explaining this says, 'Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.' [1 Cor 5:7].
But the unleavened bread which was eaten with bitterness, that is with bitter herbs, is our redemption, and the bitterness is the Passion of Our Lord.
From the words of the disciples, 'Where wilt thou that we go?', it seems evident that Christ had no dwelling-place, and that the disciples had no houses of their own; for if so, they would have taken Him thither.
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