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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when the hour was come,.... When it was evening, the last of the two evenings, when it was dark, at least after six o'clock; [See comments on Matthew 26:20]. he sat down; or lay along on a couch, as was the custom; see the note, as before: and the twelve apostles with him; for Judas, after he had made his bargain with the chief priests,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. This was to be his last meal with his disciples before he died, and he had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And he took the cup, and gave thanks and said, Take this, and divide it among...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat the passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. This was to be the last occasion on which our Lord and his disciples would thus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And it is fulfilled, for Christ himself is the Lamb of our Passover. His blood...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto them,.... The twelve apostles, as they were eating the passover, it being usual to talk and converse much at such a time; [See comments on Matthew 26:21]. With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; not for the sake of eating; for though he was traduced as a glutton, and did often eat and drink in a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof,.... Of the passover, and which now, with the rest of the ceremonial law, was to be abolished: until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God; signifying, not that he should eat of it in the kingdom of God, where it would be fulfilled; seeing the passover was never more to take place, neither in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he took the cup and gave thanks,.... There were four cups of wine drank at the passover, which the poorest man in Israel was obliged to drink; and over each of which a blessing was pronounced (m): and this was one of them, and seems to be the first; for the passover was begun by mixing a cup of wine, and blessing it, or giving thanks over it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. That was the passover cup. Now the passover melts into the Lord’s supper; and, henceforth, the Lord’s supper remains, and the passover has passed away.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves for I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. This was the passover cup,-the cup with which they concluded the paschal supper. At such times, they also usually began to chant a Psalm in happy unison. Just...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,.... That is, wine; see the blessing at the passover cup in the notes on the preceding verse: until the kingdom of God shall come; with power, as in Mr 9:1 in the resurrection of Christ from the dead; in his exaltation and session at God's right hand; in the pouring forth of the Spirit...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he took bread and gave thanks,.... Or blessed it, as in Matthew 26:26. Here begins the account of the Lord's supper after the passover was eaten; and brake it, and gave unto them; the disciples, as is expressed in Matthew 26:26 saying, this is my body; [See comments on Matthew 26:26] which is given for you; or will be given for you, as an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. What a sobering,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body, which is given for you this do in remembrance of me. It was clearly impossible that he could have meant that bread to be literally his body, because his body was there at the table. Therefore, the misunderstanding, or misrepresentation, of the Church of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Likewise also the cup after supper,.... Both after the passover, and the Lord's supper; that is, he took the cup after they had eaten the bread, and gave thanks over it, and gave it to his disciples, bidding them drink of it, as in Matthew 26:27, [See comments on Matthew 26:27]: saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In my blood, which is shed for you. But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. What a shadow this revelation must have cast over that solemn feast over the Saviour’s heart, and over the minds of all his attached disciples! We can scarcely imagine what pangs tore his loving spirit. He could have used the language of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you. He could not have meant that, literally, that cup was the new covenant; I never heard of anybody who thought he did. Why, then, take one part of the ordinance literally, if not the other? But our Lord did mean that the contents of that cup...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But behold the hand of him that betrayeth me,.... By the "hand" is meant, not figuratively the counsel, contrivance, and conspiracy of Judas to betray him, as the word is used in 2 Samuel 14:19 but literally the hand of Judas, which was then dipping in the dish with Christ, Matthew 26:23 and it follows here, is with me on the table; and is an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. This was a sad and solemn fact; yet it has often been so since that night. The nearer to Christ, the farther from him, — so has it sometimes happened since. He who was in some respects the highest in the College of the Apostles became the lowest in the ranks of the children of...