MATTHEW 26:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.”
When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. The reclining at table with the twelve is the setting of the Last Supper — the final Passover meal that Jesus will eat with his disciples before his death. The evening setting follows the Passover's timing: the meal was eaten after sunset on the fourteenth of Nisan.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:20
The Lord had above foretold His Passion, He now foretels who is to be the traitor; thus giving him place of repentance, when he should see that his thoughts and the secret designs of his heart were known.
'With the twelve,' it is said, for Judas was personally among them, though he had ceased to be so in merit.
For this reason also, because in Christ’s Passion, wherein the true sun hasted to his setting, eternal refreshment was made ready for all believers.
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