whole assembly] That is, every assembly, in every family, or the master of the house for the family shall kill it, and with the family eat it: and this it is like, was the manner, not only of the first Passeover, but of the rest: because it was a service not of the sanctuary, but of private families, where the master of it was (to the present purpose) a Priest, as before the Leviticall Priesthood was ordained, which served for publique ministrations, not for the service of private families in this way: and though in the second of Chron. 30. 15. it seemes the Priests were to kill the Passeover, (1: the Paschall Lambe the most proper service of the Passeover) that is to be understood rather of the Bullock sacrificed at this feast, 2 Chron. 35. 7. then of the Paschall Lambe in private families: and this Bullock was rather a part of the solemnitie of the feast of unleavened bread, which lasted seven dayes together, then precisely of the Paschall Supper, which was made only with a Lamb, by the first both institution and observation also, where the chief of the family was to doe that, which the Priest did in the publique observance of the sanctuary, vers. 21. in the evening] Heb. betwixt the two evenings. In our Saviours time (and before) the day was divided into twelve houres, John 11:9. but a long time before that, the Jews made speciall choice of three times for the practise of devotion, Psalms 55:17. Morning, Noone, and Evening, each of which had its measure: the morning was all that part of the day from Sun-rising to noone: the noone was the middle part of the day, taking up about two houres, before the Sunne ascended to the Meridian point, that is, before twelve of the clocke, and two houres after: and the evening was from the beginning of the declining of the Sunne to its setting: before this setting of the Sunne, (and so long before as it might serve for doing what belonged to the sacrifice by day light) was the Lambe killed, and the time that followed till night, was a second part of the evening, called a second evening, and so as betwixt two evenings, was the Passeover or Paschall Lambe slaine. Some make a fourefold division of the day artificiall, from Sunne to Sunne, the first from Sun-rising to nine of the clock in the fore-noone, as Acts 2:15. by many is expounded: the second from nine to twelve containing three houres more: the third from twelve to three, which made up the ninth houre: and the fourth from that to Sunne setting, which consisting of three houres more made the twelfth houre: so the day betwixt Sun-rising and Sun-setting is sometimes divided into twelve parts, John 11:9. sometimes into three, sometimes into foure, and according to this last division there may be two evenings, that is, two parts of the afternoone, or evening, as well as two mornings, that is, two parts of the morning or forenoone, and in that part of the day (which consisted of the third division) ended at three of the clock, and which was called an evening (because all that time the Sunne was declining towards his setting) and at the end of it, and towards the beginning of the other last part of the day, (which was reckoned for the second evening, and which was as a Participle of both evenings, or a borderer betwixt both) was this Lambe to be killed: and as the type, so was the antitype our Saviour sacrificed upon the crosse about the same time, Matthew 27:46; Matthew 27:50.