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Tell the master of the house, `The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"`
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Divine King, Humble Servant
Charles Spurgeon highlights a profound paradox in this verse: Jesus's humanity and divinity are on full display. As a man, He was so poor that He didn't have a room of His own for the Passover. Yet, as God, He commanded the best-furnished room in a stranger's house as if He owned all of Jerusalem, demonstrating that everything is ultimately His.
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Goodman of the house (οικοδεσποτη). Master of the house as in Mr 14:14; Matthew 10:25. A late word for the earlier δεσπ…
19th Century
Anglican
The Master.—Literally, the Teacher—i.e., the Rabbi whom the man acknowledged. The narrative agrees almost verbally with S…
Baptist
Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for u…
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Luke now sharpens his chronology, clearly stating it was the day of sacrifice—normally Nisan 14. The actual Passover meal was celebrated after sund…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall say to the goodman of the house The master of it; for the man bearing the pitcher of water seems to be a se…
Presbyterian
Christ kept the ordinances of the law, particularly that of the Passover, to teach us to observe his gospel institutions, and most of all that of t…
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