The Passion Story.
Introductory Remarks.
This story in each of the Four Gospels, is the Climax. Each of the Four has its own way of presenting the Facts.
Jesus is using direct speech in this account because He is still the KING and in command of the situation. Because He is the Messiah He knows what is about to happen. For Matthew this is a very important feature. Note V.2. Mat 26:1 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples, L.M. p. 642
Mat 26:2 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." What sort of man is this that predicts in detail His own death. God is at Work in the death and resurrection of Jesus. He knew Peter would deny Him three times before the cock crowed.
The Mighty Hand of God is to be seen in all this L.M. p.642
Setting the Scene
Mat 26:1 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,
Mat 26:2 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
Mat 26:3 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
Mat 26:4 and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.
Mat 26:5 But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."
Comments
Mat 26:1 When Jesus had ended all these discourses, He said to His disciples,
Notes
When Jesus had finished all these sayings - He began these sayings on Mount Olivet, Mat_24:1, and continued them till be entered into Bethany, whither he was going.
Here we should include Chapters 24-25.
Mat 26:2 "You know that in two days' time the Passover comes. And the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
Jesus, the spotless unblemished Lamb of God
BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD SLAIN FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD
Notes
"You know that in two days' time the Passover comes.
Jesus came to fulfill the very centre of the Jewish religion as the passover lamb,and the whole feast. He is the LAMB OF GOD who came to Take away the Sin of the whole world.
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The passover - A feast instituted in Egypt, to commemorate the destroying angel’s passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn of the Egyptians. See the whole of this business largely explained in the Notes on Exodus 12:1-27 (note). This feast began on the fourteenth day of the first moon, in the first month, Nisan, and it lasted only one day; but it was immediately followed by the days of unleavened bread, which were seven, so that the whole lasted eight days, and all the eight days are sometimes called the feast of the passover, and sometimes the feast or days of unleavened bread. See Luk_22:1-7. The three most signal benefits vouchsafed to the Israelites were,
1. The deliverance from the slavery of Egypt; to commemorate which they kept the feast of unleavened bread, and the passover.
2. The giving of the law; to commemorate which, they kept the feast of weeks.
3. Their sojourning in the wilderness, and entrance into the promised land; to commemorate which, they kept the feast of tabernacles.
See these largely explained, Exo_23:14 (note); Leviticus 23:2-40 (note).
The Son of man is betrayed, (rather delivered up), to be crucified - With what amazing calmness and precision does our blessed Lord speak of this awful event! What a proof does he here give of his prescience in so correctly predicting it; and of his love in so cheerfully undergoing it! Having instructed his disciples and the Jews by his discourses, edified them by his example, convinced them by his miracles, he now prepares to redeem them by his blood! [These two verses have no proper connection with this chapter, and should be joined to the preceding.]
Mat 26:3 Then the High Priests and Elders of the People assembled in the court of the palace of the High Priest Caiaphas,
Notes
Then the High Priests,
How amazing that there should be High Priests Plural? Probably, what is meant are the chief Priests of the Sanhedrin.
The high priest, who was called Caiaphas - Caiaphas succeeded Simon, son of Camith, about a.d. 16, or, as Calmet thinks, 25. He married the daughter of Annas, who was joined with him in the priesthood. About two years after our Lord’s crucifixion, Caiaphas and Pilate were both deposed by Vitellius, then governor of Syria, and afterwards emperor. Caiaphas, unable to bear this disgrace, and the stings of his conscience for the murder of Christ, killed himself about a.d. 35.Adam Clark See Joseph. Ant. b. xviii. c. 2-4.Caiaphas
Mat 26:4 and consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem and put Him to death.
Caiaphas,, the High Priest with Annas.
Notes
They consulted how to get Jesus into their power by stratagem
by subtilty - The Providence of God frustrated their artful machinations; and that event which they wished to conduct with the greatest privacy and silence was transacted with all possible celebrity, amidst the thousands who resorted to Jerusalem, at this season, for the keeping of the passover. It was, doubtless, of the very first importance that the crucifixion of Christ, which was preparatory to the most essential achievement of Christianity, viz. his resurrection from the grave, should be exhibited before many witnesses, and in the most open manner, that infidelity might not attempt, in future, to invalidate the evidences of the Christian religion, by alleging that these things were done in a corner. Adam Clark
Mat 26:5 But they said, "Not during the Festival, lest there be a riot among the people."
Not during the Feast unless there be a TUMULT. L.M. P. 643
Crowds of Pilgrims would be flocking into the Holy City at this time so they decided not to take action during the feast. They wanted to do their dirty deeds in secret.
The people would all be removing leaven from their houses then on the fourteenth day of Abib they solemnly slew the Passover Lamb. It was slain in the temple court and they threw the blood around the altar. They took the carcass home to be roasted. This was the main part of the evening meal eaten while reclining at the table on couches. This meal was the Highlight of the Jewish Year and devout observers would not wish to be distracted.
shttp://members.bib-arch.org/image.asp?PubID=BSBR&Volumeder: family at seder meal
A family at a seder, the ritual meal held to commence the Jewish festival of Passover.
seder: family at seder meal
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