Matthew 26:20 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 26:20

When evening came, Jesus was reclining with the twelve disciples.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Now when even was come, he was sitting at meat with the twelve disciples;

KJV

Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 20.) And when evening came, he was reclining at table with the twelve disciples. Judas acts in such a way that suspicion of being a traitor is removed.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. - It is a common opinion that our Lord ate the passover some hours before the Jews ate it; for the Jews, according to custom, ate theirs at the end of the fourteenth day, but Christ ate his the preceding even, which was the beginning of the same sixth day, or Friday; the Jews begin their day at sunsetting, we at midnight. Thus Christ ate the passover on the same day with the Jews, but not on the same hour.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

We read, in the beginning of this passage, how our Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed into the hands of his deadly enemies. The priests and scribes, anxious to put him to death, were at a loss how to effect their purpose, for fear of an uproar among the people. At this juncture a fitting instrument for carrying out their designs offered himself to them in the person of Judas Iscariot. That false apostle undertook to deliver his Master into their hands for thirty pieces of silver.

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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

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὀψίας	Opsias	As evening	G3798 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
γενομένης	genomenēs	having arrived	G1096 →
ἀνέκειτο	anekeito	He was reclining	G345 →
μετὰ	meta	with	G3326 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
δώδεκα	dōdeka	twelve	G1427 →

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

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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 12:11
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it…
leads to
- Exodus 12:27
  you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the…
- Ephesians 6:15
  and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace.
- 1 Peter 1:13
  Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 5:7
  Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- Luke 12:35
  Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
Through
Song of Solomon 1:12
While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
leads to
- John 12:3
  Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the…
Through
John 13:21
After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
leads to
- John 13:18
  I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
- Matthew 26:21
  And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”