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Mat_26:1 f.[21] For this form of transition, by which a marked pause is indicated at the close of a somewhat lengthened discourse, comp. Mat_7:28, Mat_11:1, Mat_13:53, Mat_19:1.
πάντας ] referring back, without any particular object in view (such as to call attention to the fact that our Lord’s functions as a teacher were now ended, Wichelhaus and the earlier expositors), to the preceding discourse, consisting, as it does, of several sections (Mat_24:4 to Mat_25:46), not a parallel to LXX. Deu_31:1 (Delitzsch).
ΜΕΤᾺ ΔΎΟ ἩΜΈΡΑς ] after the lapse of two days, i.e. the day after next the Passover commenced. It would therefore be Tuesday, if, as the Synoptists inform us (differently in John, see on Joh_18:28), the feast began on Thursday evening.
τὸ πάσχα ] ôÌÆñÇç , Aram. ôÌÇñÀçÈà , the passing over (Exo_12:13), a Mosaic feast, in commemoration of the sparing of the first-born in Egypt, began after sunset on the 14th of Nisan, and lasted till the 21st. On its original meaning as a feast in connection with the consecration of the first-fruits of the spring harvest, see Ewald, Alterth. p. 466 f.; Dillmann in Schenkel’s Lex. IV. p. 387 f.
καὶ ὁ υἱός , κ . τ . λ .] a definite prediction of what was to happen to Him at the Passover, but represented as something already known to the disciples (from Mat_20:19), and which, though forming part of the contents of οἴδατε , is at the same time introduced by a broken construction (not as dependent on ὍΤΙ ), in accordance with the depth of His emotion.
[21] See on ch. 26 f. (Mark 14, Luke 22); Wichelhaus, ausführl. Kommentar über die Gesch. des Leidens J. Chr., Halle 1855; Steinmeyer, d. Leidensgesch. d. Herrn in Bezug auf d. neueste Krit., Berl. 1868.