MARK 14:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.”
The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover — the verification of the prediction is immediate and complete: things just as Jesus had told them. The pattern established in the colt-finding is confirmed: Jesus' foreknowledge of the Jerusalem arrangements is perfect and the disciples find exactly what he described.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:16
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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