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Mar_14:1-2. See on Mat_26:2-5. Comp. Luk_22:1-2. Including this short introduction of simple historical tenor (in which Luke follows him), Mark is, in the entire narrative of the passion, generally more original, fresh, and free from later additions and amplifications of tradition than Matthew (comp. Weiss, 1861, p. 52 ff.), although the latter again is the more original in various details.
τὸ πάσχα κ . τὰ ἄζυμα ] the Passover and the unleavened ( çîöåú ), i.e. the feast of the Passover and (which it likewise is) of the unleavened. Comp. 3 Esdr. Mar_1:19 : ἠγάγοσαν … τὸ πάσχα καὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν τῶν ἀζύμων . On τὰ ἄζυμα as a designation of the feast, comp. 3 Esdr. Mar_1:10 : ἔχοντες τὰ ἄζυμα κατὰ τὰς φυλάς .
ἔλεγον γάρ ] This γάρ (see the critical remarks) informs us of the reason of the ἐζήτουν πῶς previously said; for the feast was in their way, so that they could not at once proceed, but believed that they must let it first go quietly by, so that no tumult might occur. Victor Antiochenus remarks: τὴν μὲν ἑορτὴν ὑπερθέσθαι βούλονται · οὐ συγχωροῦντο δὲ , ἐπειδὴ τὴν προφητείαν ἔδει πληροῦσθαι τὴν ἐν τῇ νομικῇ διατυπώσει , ἐν ᾗ τὸ πάσχα ἐδύετο , μηνὶ πρώτῳ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ · ἐν τούτῳ γὰρ τῷ μηνὶ καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τὸ ἀληθινὸν πάσχα ἔδει θυτῆναι . A view right in itself; not, however, according to the Synoptic, but according to the Johannine account of the day of the death of Jesus.
ἔσται ] shall be, certainty of what was otherwise to be expected. Hartung, Partikell. II. p. 140.