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be Jewiſi Account ot Days, trom Sun-ſer to Sun-ſer ; bur ir OY ter the Roman Account, who count the Days as we do, -"m Midnigpt 19 Midnight : For the Jews began their Feaſt of wo Ks” Rread, from their Eating the Paſſover : So as their Four- pag Day mult needs take in 10 many Hours as were betwixt por ſertin? of the Sun, and Midnight of the firſt Day of unlea- an / read, which held to the end of the Twenry-firft Day. So were Seven entire Days with a part of another, Matrhew and Mark bring in che Ditciples firft asking our Saviour (knowing his Reſolurion to keep the Paſſover) where he would have it prepared ? He ſaid (Le fairh) ro Peter and Fohn, Go into the City to ſuch 4 1m &, Mukand Luke here 1upply ſomething omitted by 34:thew, for Matthew only mentionech: cheir going ro the Maſter of +2 Juſe, and telling him from Chriſt, The Maſter ſaith my Cme is at hand, T will keep the Paſſover ar thy Houſe with my Diſ- ci1les, The other two Evangeliſts mention more in their In- {-uctions; telling us, thar he told them, that when they came inco the City, T/ey ſhould ſee a Man carrying a Pitcher of Water, whom they ſhould tollow into what Houſe ſoever he ſhould go *n. and there they ſhould fay to the Maſter of the Houſe, The Mater ſaith my time #s at Hand, TI will keep the Paſſouer at thy Hhuſz with my Diſciples. Mark and Luke add, where 15 the Gied-Chamber ? No doubr, bar at thar time moſt Hovthoiders, who had convenient Houtes, Cid prepare Chambers for the ſeve- ral Paſſover Companies. Our Lord here gave his Diſciples an e- minenc Proof of his Divine Nature, in to particularly telling them what they ſhould meer wich in the City; and diipoſing the Hearr of this Houſholder, to fo tree a Reception of him. For all three Evangeliſts agree, | That the Diſciples did as Jeſus com- manded, and found as he had jaid unto them, and they made ready the Paſſover. } There was a great deal ot Work to be done, of which none of the Evangeliſts fay any ching. Some upon the reading of this, may be thinking, Where they had the Lamb 2? 1hen was it offered ? 8c. According to che Law, in Exud. 12.3. the Lamb was to be taken up the Tenth Day, and kept to the Lourreenth ; it mighr cicher be brought by thoſe that did Ear it, or bought Ar Feruſalem, for they had great Markers for thar purpoſe, ſome Days before rhe Patloyer : Whether all the Lambs thus eaten by the Paſchal Socteties, were firſt ro be brought to the Temple, and then «*;1{ed, and the Blood ſprinkled on the 4/- tar, and poured out ar che Focrot it, and their Far and Entrails offered, I much doubr ; I rather chink, this was only to be done with ſome or them, inſtead of all. That ſome were ſo killed by the Prieſts, their Blood ſo ſprinkled and poured out upon, and at the Foot of the Airar, I doubt not, tho' God having no Tem- ple, n-r Altar built ar char time, there be no ſuch thing in the Law, E3d. 12, but at Hezekiah's Pafſover, 2' Chron. 39, 16, 17. we find the Levites killing the Paſſover, and the Priefs ſprinkling the Bli1d;, but as I ſaid before, I do nor think, thar the Priefts and Levites killed che Lambs for all the Paſſover Societies : The great time that 1t mult have taken, and the vaſt quantity of Blood would have been, the long time it muſt have taken to cleanſe the Entrails, makes it appear impoſſible ro be done in Four or Five Hours, for they had no longer time to kill it in. They did nor begin to kill till after the Evening Sacrifice for the Day, was done with, and that was berwixt Two and Three of the Clock, and they were to finiſh by Sun-ſet, tor then the other Evening began : This inclineth me to think, that every Lamb,: was not {> killed and offered, only ſome inſtead of all. Bur whar the Diſciples did as to theſe Matters, the Scripture harh not told us. It is enough for us that we are told the Paſſover was made ready, and we may be aſſured thar nothing in the pre- paring of it was omitted, which by che Law of God was required 25 to this ſacred Aion. Ir was not the Buſineſs of the Evange- liſts ro acquaint us with every particular Circumſtance, only to let us know that our Lord did keep the Paſſover, and in the Cloſe of rhar Zeaſt inſtirure his Supper, ro which Relation our
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20 Now when the even was come, he ſate down with the twelve.
21 And asthey di” .t, hefaid, Verily I ay unto you, that one of you thall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding forrowful, and began | Every one of them to ſay unto him, Lord, is it]?
41.9 22 And he anſwered, and ſaid, * He that dippeth | HiShand withme in the diſh, the ſame ſhall betray me,
24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: ut wo unto the man by whom the Son of man is betrayed : ir had been good for that man if' he had not been born.
25 Then Judas which betrayed him, anſwered, and 1aid, Maſter, Isir1? He faid unto him, Thou haft ſid. fart; Tath rhe ſame, Chap. 14. v. 17, 13, 19, 20, 2I. And in We Evoring he cometh with the Twelve. And as they ſat and did fall fe/i's ſaith, Verily T ſay unto you, one of you ſhall betray me PI exo; with me. © And they began to be ſo:rowful, and to ſay " ) bir, one bv one, Is it I? And he anſwered, nd ſaid, It is one of ", Pilve that dippeth with me in the Diſh. The Son of Man in-
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