Luk 22:8-15 | Clarke | STEP | Verse 8 He sent Peter and John, etc. - See the subject of these verses largely explained on (note), and , (note).

Luke 22:8-15

Verse 8

He sent Peter and John, etc. - See the subject of these verses largely explained on Mat 26:17-19 (note), and Mar 14:13, Mar 14:15 (note). Verse 14

And when the hour was come - That is, the evening. See Mat 26:20, and Mar 14:17. Verse 15

With desire I have desired - A Hebraism for, I have desired most earnestly. Our Lord's meaning seems to be, that, having purposed to redeem a lost world by his blood, he ardently longed for the time in which he was to offer himself up. Such love did the holy Jesus bear to the human race. This eucharistic passover was celebrated once, by way of anticipation, before the bloody sacrifice of the victim of salvation, and before the deliverance it was appointed to commemorate; as the figurative passover had been likewise once celebrated before the going out of Egypt, and the deliverance of God's chosen people. Quesnel.