Matthew 26:20

“Now when the even was come, etc.] The second evening, when the sun was set, and it was dark, and properly night; for “on the evenings of the passovers near the Minchah, a man might not eat Æçjtç d[, “until it was dark” f1512.” This was according to the rule, (<021208>Exodus 12:8), he sat down with the twelve, his twelve disciples; so the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, and Munster’s Hebrew Gospel; and which also adds, “at table”; even all the twelve apostles, who were properly his family, and a sufficient number for a passover lamb f1513: for “they do not kill the passover for a single man, according to the words of R. Judah, though R. Jose permits it: yea, though the society…”

“When the even was come - The lamb was killed “between the evenings,” Exodus 12:6 (Hebrew) - that is between three o’clock, p. m., and nine in the evening. The Jews reckoned two evenings - one from three o’clock p. m. to sunset, the other from sunset to the close of the first watch in the night, or nine o’clock p. m. The paschal supper was commonly eaten after the setting of the sun, and often in the night, Exodus 12:8. He sat down - At first the supper was eaten standing, with their loins girded and their staff in their hand, denoting the haste with which they were about to flee from Egypt. Afterward, however, they introduced the practice, it seems, of partaking of this as they did of their…”

“Mar 14:17; Luk 22:14. Matthew 26:23”

“when: Mar 14:17-21; Luk 22:14-16; Joh 13:21 he: Exo 12:11; Sol 1:12 Matthew 26:21”