CHAP. XXII. 1. Now the feastof unleavenedbread drew nigh, which iscalledthePassover. 2. And the ChiefPriestsand Scribessought how they might killHim ; fortheyfearedthe people. kCHRYS. The actionsof the Jews were a shadow of our own. Accordinglyifyou askof a Jew concerningthePass over and the feastof unleavenedbread,he willtellyou nothingmomentous,mentioningthedeliverancefromEgypt; whereasshoulda man inquireof me he would not hearof Egypt or Pharaoh,but of freedomfrom sinand the dark- Gloss. nessofSatan,notby Moses,but by theSon ofGod ; GLOSS. nonocc.Whose Passionthe Evangelistbeing aboutto relate,intro ducesthe figureof it,saying,Now thefeastof unleavened breaddrew nigh,which iscalledthePassover. BEDE. Now the Passover,which iscalledin Hebrew " Phase,"isnotso named from the Passion,but from the passingover,because the destroyingangel,seeingthe bloodon the doorsofthe Israelites,passedover them, and touched not theirfirst born. Or theLord Himself,givingassistanceto His people, walked over them. But hereinisthe differencebetween the Passoverand the feastof unleavenedbread,thatbythe Passoverismeant thatday aloneon which the lamb was slaintowardsthe evening,thatis,on the fourteenthdayof the firstmonth,but on the fifteenth,when the Israelites went out of Egypt,followedthe feastof unleavenedbread forsevendays,up to the twenty-firstof the same month. Hence thewritersoftheGospelsubstituteone indifferently fortheother.As hereitissaid,The day ofunleavenedbread, whichis calledthePassover. But itissignifiedby a mys- tery,thatChristhavingsufferedonceforus,hascommanded