MATTHEW 26:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.”
He said: go into the city to a certain man and say to him, the Teacher says, my time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. The deliberate preparation: the specific instructions and the my time is at hand communicate the intentional, foreknown character of the final Passover. The teacher who knows the unnamed man communicates the pre-arranged character of the final meal.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:18
The Evangelist having gone through the events preliminary to the Passion, namely, the announcement of the counsel of the Chief Priests, and the covenant for His betrayal, prosecutes the history in the order of events, saying, 'On the first day of unleavened bread.'
The first day of unleavened bread is the fourteenth day of the first month, when the lamb is killed, the moon is at full, and leaven is put away.
And observe that with the Jews, the Passover is celebrated on the first day, and the following seven are called the days of unleavened bread; but here the first day of unleavened bread means the day of the Passover.
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