Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Ver. 17. Now the first day] That is, on the fourteenth day of the first month, according to the law. The priests, for political respects, had adjourned this feast to the sixteenth day, being the Sabbath, against the letter of the law, that the celebrity might be the greater; and the people were ruled by them. Our Saviour followeth not a multitude, nor observeth man's tradition herein, but God's prescription: no more must we. This St Luke plainly intimateth in his εδει, Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover ought to be killed; though the custom were otherwise.