To eat the passover (φαγειν το πασχα). There were two feasts rolled into one, the passover feast and the feast of unleavened bread…

The first day, etc. The feast continued eight days, including the day on which the paschal lamb was killed and eaten ([Reference Exodus 12…

The first day of the feast of unleavened bread—St. Mark and St. Luke, writing for Gentile readers, add the explanation that this w…

And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying …

Glossa Ordinaria: After covering the events leading up to the Passion—namely, the announcement of the Chief Priests' counsel a…

Toward midafternoon of Thursday, 14 Nisan (see comment on Mk 14:1–2), the lambs (one per “household”—a convenient group of perhaps ten or twelve pe…

Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus. The first question is, why does the day that preceded the sacrifici…

Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread
There were seven of these days, and this was the first of them, i…

Observe, the place for their eating the Passover was pointed out by Christ to the disciples. He knows those hidden ones who favour his cause, and w…

Next, the Evangelist deals with the institution of the Ble ed Sacrament. Because the new sacraments take the place of the old ones, as it is said, …