“Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.”
You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. The passion announcement is now a precise temporal declaration: the Passover is two days away, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. The pairing of the Passover date with the passion announcement communicates the theological connection: the death that is about to occur is the true Passover, the fulfillment of the exodus event.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:2
After the discourse in which the Lord had declared that He should return in splendour, He announces to them His approaching Passion, that they might learn the close connection between the sacrament of the Cross, and the glory of eternity.
'All these sayings,' i.e. about the consummation of the world, and the day of judgment. Or, 'finished,' because He had fulfilled in doing and preaching all things from the beginning of the Gospel to His Passion.
Yet it is not 'all' barely, but 'all these;' for there were other sayings which He must speak before He should be delivered up.
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