Matthew 26:17 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 26:17

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to eat the passover?

KJV

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 17) Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying, 'Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?' The first day of Unleavened Bread is the fourteenth day of the first month, when the lamb is sacrificed and the moon is full, and the yeast is thrown out. Among the disciples who came to Jesus, they asked him, 'Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?' And I suspect Judas to have been the traitor.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Note, Before solemn ordinances there must be solemn preparation. They knew that he had no house of his own wherein to eat the passover; in this, as in other things, for our sakes he became poor. Among all Zion's palaces there was none for Zion's King; but his kingdom was not of this world.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

See also Mar 14:12-16; Luk 22:7-13. Mat 26:17 The first day ... - The feast continued “eight” days, including the day on which the paschal lamb was killed and eaten, Exo 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 eaten on the occasion, was killed.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

(1856)

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Hebraic traditional view

The meal on the table

“The first day of Unleavened Bread” places this meal at Passover (Pesach), the spring feast remembering the exodus, kept then as a lamb eaten with unleavened flatbread (matzah) and wine after the day's Temple sacrifice. The bread Jesus broke and the cup He blessed were the feast's own elements; the hymn they sang going out (26:30) would by long custom have been from the Hallel, Psalms 113–118, the psalms sung at Passover. The Last Supper is not a new ceremony dropped into history; it is the exodus meal, taken up and given its fulfillment.

Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10:5–7 (the cups and the Hallel) · The Lord's Supper (this site's study)

Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Τῇ	Tēa	On the	G3588 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
πρώτῃ	prōtē	first [day]	G4413 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἀζύμων	azumōn	unleavened [bread]	G106 →
προσῆλθον	prosēlthon	came	G4334 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
μαθηταὶ	mathētai	disciples	G3101 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	to Jesus	G2424 →
λέγοντες	legontes	saying	G3004 →
ποῦ	pou	Where	G4226 →
θέλεις	theleis	wish you [that]	G2309 →
ἑτοιμάσωμέν	hetoimasōmen	we may prepare	G2090 →
σοι	soi	for You	G4771 →
φαγεῖν	phagein	to eat	G5315 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πάσχα;¶	pascha	Passover?	G3957 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 12:6
You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
leads to
- Leviticus 23:5
  The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 30:15–18
  And on the fourteenth day of the second month they slaughtered the Passover lamb. The priests and Levites were ashamed, and they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.
- Numbers 28:16
  The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
- Numbers 9:1–3
  In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Exodus 12:18
  In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.