Matthew 26:8-17 ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:16

From that time. As soon as he had made his bargain. Opportunity . "In the absence of the multitude," St. Luke adds. The Sanhedrin no longer thought it necessary to wait for the termination of the festival (verse 5). Judas would enable them to seize Christ in his most secret retirement, and at the most opportune moment. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17

The first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread; literally, on the first day of Unleavened Bread. We have arrived at the Thursday in the Holy Week, Nisan 13. Wednesday had been spent in retirement at Bethany, and no acts or sayings of Christ on that day are recorded. The festival actually began at sunset of the 14th which was called the day of preparation, because the lambs for the feast were slain in the afternoon of that day, preparatory to their being eaten before the morning of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-19

Preparation for the Paschal Sapper. ( Mark 14:12-16 ; Luke 22:7-13 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-30

The last Supper. I. THE PREPARATION . 1 . The question of the disciples. It was now the first day of Unleavened Bread, "when the Passover must be killed"; apparently, therefore, the fourteenth of Nisan, which seems to have been sometimes regarded as the beginning of the feast (see Josephus, 'War of the Jews,' Matthew 5:3 . 1), though the fifteenth was legally the first day. It is possible, therefore, that the disciples may have come to our Lord at the beginning of the fourteenth,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-30

The Lord's Supper. The institution of the Holy Supper was in connection with the eating of the Passover. The occasion was most appropriate and significant; for the Jewish feast had been instituted to foreshadow what the Christian festival was founded to commemorate (see 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 ). The two sacraments of Christianity express all that was expressed in the entire circle of the ceremonial law, and more. All the washings are embodied in the sacrament of baptism; all the sacrifices... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 26:17-19

See also Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-13.Matthew 26:17The first day ... - The feast continued “eight” days, including the day on which the paschal lamb was killed and eaten, Exodus 12:15. That was the fourteenth day of the month Abib, answering to parts of our March and April.Of unleavened bread - Called so because during those eight days no bread made with yeast or leaven was allowed to be eaten. Luke says, “in which the passover must be killed” - that is, in which the “paschal lamb,” or the lamb... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:6-13

Matthew 26:6-13. When Jesus was in the house of Simon the leper That is, who had been a leper, but, as seems highly probable, had been healed by Jesus. At least, it is not to be thought that he was now a leper, for in that case he would not have been suffered to live in a town, nor would any Jew have come to an entertainment in his house. There came a woman Probably Mary, the sister of Lazarus, for it is highly probable, as Dr. Doddridge has shown, that the anointing of Jesus here... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:14-16

Matthew 26:14-16. Then one of the twelve Judas Iscariot, having been more forward than the rest ( Joh 12:4 ) in condemning the woman, thought himself, as it appears, peculiarly affronted by the rebuke which Jesus now gave to all his apostles. Rising up, therefore, he went straightway into the city to the high-priest’s palace, where doubtless he had received some previous information that the council would be assembled, and finding them there accordingly, he said unto them, What will ye... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:17

Matthew 26:17. On the first day of unleavened bread Being Thursday, the fourteenth day of the first month, Exodus 12:6; Exodus 12:15. The disciples came, saying, Where wilt thou that we prepare the passover? They meant at what house. And he said, Go into the city to such a man This implies that Jesus named the person to whom they were sent, though the evangelists have not thought it of importance to mention his name. He told them further, that on their entrance into the city they should... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:1-16

138. The plot to capture Jesus (Matthew 26:1-16; Mark 14:1-11; Luke 22:1-6)The Passover was only two days away, and Jesus knew its significance in relation to his coming death. Israelites kept the Feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread as an annual week-long festival in commemoration of ancient Israel’s deliverance from Egypt. God ‘passed over’ those houses where a lamb had been sacrificed in the place of those under judgment (Exodus 12:1-13). The people then escaped from bondage. For the next... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-19

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 26:17-30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Matthew 26:17-19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:6-13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:14-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 26:17

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:1-16

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