Cometh (γινετα). Futuristic use of the present middle indicative. This was probably our Tuesday evening (beginning of Jewish Wedne…

After two days is the feast of the Pa over. (See Barnes' notes on Matthew 12:1-8).

The festival of the pa over was celebrated to pr…

After two days is the feast of the passover — Assuming the Last Supper coincided with the actual Passover feast (as the facts of t…

Our Lord, having finished all these sayings about the destruction of Jerusalem, His own Second Advent and the great Day of Judgment, brought back t…

St. Hilary of Poitiers: After the discourse in which the Lord had declared that He would return in splendor, He announced His…

For the other major passion predictions, see comments on 16:21; 17:22–23; 20:18–19. One last time Matthew uses the formula by which he brings all h…

You know that after two days is [the feast of] the passover ,
&c.] Which was kept in commemoration of the deliveranc…

Our Lord had often told of his sufferings as at a distance; now he speaks of them as at hand. At the same time the Jewish council consulted how the…

The Evangelist, having related the preparatory events for the Pa ion, here begins to discu Christ’s Pa ion, which is divided into two parts. First,…