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that we make ready for Thee to eat the Pass-
over?" Not "the first day of the Feast," as the
A.V. gives it, but the day on which leaven was
put away, namely, the 14th Nisan. Mark and
Luke state even more explicitly that it was the
day when the Passover was killed. 1

But, we are told, "It appears from John xviii.
28 that on the Friday morning the Jews who
conducted our Lord to the pretorium had not yet
eaten the Passover." That day, therefore, must
have been the 14th Nisan. And this is confirmed
by the fact that the Evangelist calls it "the
preparation of the Passover" and adds that the
following day "was a high day," 2 which proves
that it must have been the Feast day, or 15th
Nisan. 3

Now at this stage I do not ask that the
Evangelists shall be believed as men who were
inspired, nor that their writings shall be accepted

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1 Matt. xxvi. 17; Mark xiv. 12; Luke xxii. 7.
2 John xix. 14, 31.
3 In Hastings Bible Dictionary (vol. ii., p. 634), Prof. Sanday,
after noticing that the Synoptists identify the Last Supper with
the Passover, goes on to say, "St. John, on the other hand, by a
number of clear indications ( John xiii. 1; xviii. 28; xix. 14, 31),
implies that the Last Supper was eaten before the time of the
regular Passover, and that the Lord suffered on the afternoon of
Nisan 14." Prof. Cheyne Encyclopædia Biblica says, "The
Synoptists put the Crucifixion on Friday the 15th Nisan, John on
Friday the 4th" (article Chronology, p. 806).

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Bible and Modern Criticism. Contributors: Robert Anderson - author. Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1902. Page Number: 233.
    
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