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Mar 14:1-11. The conspiracy of the Jewish authorities to put Jesus to death - The supper and the anointing at Bethany - Judas agrees with the chief priests to betray his Lord. ( = Mat 26:1-16; Luk 22:1-6; Joh 12:1-11).
The events of this section appeared to have occurred on the fourth day (Wednesday) of the Redeemer’s Last Week.
Conspiracy of the Jewish authorities to put Jesus to death (Mar 14:1, Mar 14:2).
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread - The meaning is, that two days after what is about to be mentioned the passover would arrive; in other words, what follows occurred two days before the feast.
and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death - From Matthew’s fuller account (Mat 26:1-75) we learn that our Lord announced this to the Twelve as follows, being the first announcement to them of the precise time: “And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings” (Mat 26:1) - referring to the contents of Matthew 24:1-25:46, which He delivered to His disciples; His public ministry being now closed: from His prophetical He is now passing into His priestly office, although all along He Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses - “He said unto His disciples, Ye know that after two days is [the feast of] the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.” The first and the last steps of His final sufferings are brought together in this brief announcement of all that was to take place. The passover was the first and the chief of the three great annual festivals, commemorative of the redemption of God’s people from Egypt, through the sprinkling of the blood of a lamb divinely appointed to be slain for that end; the destroying angel, “when he saw the blood, passing over” the Israelitish houses, on which that blood was seen, when he came to destroy all the first-born in the land of Egypt (Exo 12:12, Exo 12:13) - bright typical foreshadowing of the great Sacrifice, and the Redemption effected thereby. Accordingly, “by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working,” it was so ordered that precisely at the passover season, “Christ our Passover should be sacrificed for us.” On the day following the passover commenced “the feast of unleavened bread,” so called because for seven days only unleavened bread was to be eaten (Exo 12:18-20). See on 1Co 5:6-8. We are further told by Matthew (Mat 26:3) that the consultation was held in the palace of Caiaphas the high priest, between the chief priests, [the scribes], and the elders of the people, how “they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill Him.”