Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will You have us prepare for You to eat the Passover?” And He said, “Go into the city to such a man, and say to him, ‘The Master says, My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.’”
By the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread he means the day before that feast; for they are accustomed to reckon the day from the evening, and he makes mention of that evening in which the Passover must be killed (John 13:1), for on the fifth day of the week they came to Him. One calls this the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Luke 22:7), speaking of the time when they came to Him, and another says, “Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed”; by “came” meaning that it was near, it was at the doors, plainly referring to that evening. For they began with the evening; therefore each adds, “when the Passover was killed”.
