On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed, Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
In these verses we have, I. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, the night before he died, with the joys and comforts of which ordinance he prepared himself for his approaching sorrows, the full prospect of which did not indispose him for that solemnity.
Commenting on Mark 14:12-31
And the first day of unleavened bread,.... Being come, which was the fourteenth of Nisan: when they killed the passover; that is, "the Jews", as the Syriac and Persic versions supply; for any Israelite, that not a priest, might slay it: their canon runs thus (x), "an Israelite kills (the passover), and a priest receives (the blood), and gives it to his neighbour, and his...
Verses 12-16. See Verses 12,13. They killed the passover. The paschal lamb, which was slain in keeping the passover. Go and prepare. Go and prepare a lamb, have it roasted, and properly prepared with the usual things to eat with it. The city. The city of Jerusalem. They were now in Bethany, about two miles from the city. A man bearing a pitcher of water.