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Mar_14:12-16. See on Mat_26:17-19. Comp. Luk_22:7-13. The marvellous character of the ordering of the repast, which is not as yet found in Matthew with his simple πρὸς τὸν δεῖνα , points in Mark and Luke to a later form of the tradition (in opposition to Ewald, Weiss, Holtzmann, and others), as Bleek also assumes. Comp. Mat_26:18. This form may easily, under the influence of the conception of our Lord’s prophetic character (comp. Mar_11:2 f.), have originated through the circumstance, that the two disciples met the servant of the δεῖνα , to whom Jesus sent them, in the street with a pitcher of water. Assuredly original, however, is the sending of only two disciples in Mark, whom thereupon Luk_22:8 names.
ὅτε τ . πάσχα ἔθυον ] on which day they killed the paschal lamb (Exo_12:21; Deu_16:2; Deuteronomy 3 Esdr. Mar_1:1, Mar_7:12), which occurred on the 14th Nisan in the afternoon.[163] See on Mat_26:17.
Mar_14:13. ἄνθρωπος ] The connection (see Mar_14:14) shows that the man in question was a slave; his occupation was the carrying of water, Deu_29:10; Jos_9:21; Wetstein in loc.
κεράμιον ὕδατος ] an earthen vessel with water. Comp. ἀλάβαστρον μύρου , Mar_14:3. “The water pitcher reminds one of the beginning of a meal, for which the hands are washed,” Ewald.
Mar_14:14. τὸ κατάλυμά μου ] the lodging destined for me, in which ( ὅπου ) I, etc. The word ΚΑΤΆΛ ., lodging, quarters, is bad Greek, Thom. M. p. 501. But see Pollux, i. 73, and Eustathius, ad Od. iv. 146, 33, Rom.
Mar_14:15. αὐτός ] He himself, the master of the house. On the form ἀνάγαιον instead of ἈΝΏΓΑΙΟΝ (Xen. Anab. v. 4. 29), which is preserved in the old lexicographers, see Fritzsche in loc.; Buttmann, neut. Gr. p. 12 [E. T. 13]. In signification it is equivalent to ὑπερῷον , òÂìÄéÈä , upper chamber, used as a place of prayer and of assembling together. Comp. on Mar_2:3, and see on Act_1:13.
The attributes which follow are thus to be distributed: he will show you a large upper chamber spread, i.e. laid with carpets, in readiness.
ἐτοιμάσ . ἡμῖν ] arrange for us, make preparation for us. Comp. Luk_9:52.
[163] Neither here nor elsewhere have the Synoptics expressed themselves ambiguously as to the day of the Last Supper. See Hilgenfeld in his Zeitschr. 1865, p. 96 ff. (in opposition to Aberle in the theol. Quartalschr. IV. p. 548 ff.).