15. ἐπιθυμίᾳ ἐπεθύμησα. I earnestly desired. A Hebraism. Mat 13:14; Joh 3:29; Act 4:17; Act 5:28, &c. Winer, p. 584.
τοῦτο τὸ πάσχα φαγεῖν. The expression may perhaps point to the fact that this was not the actual Jewish Paschal meal, but one which was intended to supersede it by a Passover of far more divine significance.