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bearinga pitcherofwater; followhim intothe house
wherehe enterethin.
11. And ye shallsay unto the goodman of the
house,The Master saithunto thee,Where is the
guestchamber,where I shalleatthePassoverwithMy
disciples?
12.And he shallshew you a largeupper room
furnished: theremake ready.
13.And they went,and foundas He had saidunto
them: and they made readythePassover.
TIT.BOST. Our Lord, in order to leave us a heavenly
Passover,ate a typicalone, removing the figure,that the
truthmight take itsplace. BEDE. By the day of unleavened
breadof the Passover,He means the fourteenthday of the
firstmonth, the day on which,having put away the leaven,
theywere accustomed to holdthe Passover,thatis,the lamb,
towardsevening. EUSEB. But should any one say," If on
thefirstday of unleavened bread the disciplesof our Saviour
preparethe Passover,on that day then should we alsocele
bratethe Passover;"we answer,thatthiswas not an admo
nition,but a historyof the fact. It iswhat took placeat the
timeof the savingPassion; but itisone thing to relatepast
events,another to sanctionand leavethem an ordinance to
posterity.Moreover, the Saviourdid not keep His Passover
with the Jews at the time that they sacrificedthe lamb.
For they did thison the Preparation,when our Lord suffered.
Thereforethey enterednot intothe hallof Pilate,that they John
might not be defiled,but might eat the Passover. For from 18,28-
the time that they conspiredagainstthe truth,they drove
farfrom them the Word of truth. Nor on the firstday of
unleavened bread,on which the Passover ought to be sacri
ficed,did they eat theiraccustomed Passover,for they were
intentupon something else,but on the day after,which was
the second of unleavened bread. But our Lord on the first
day of unleavened bread, that is,on the fifthday of the
week, kept the Passoverwith His disciples.
THEOPHYL. Now on the same fifthday He sendstwo of