This Passover [just before our Lord’s sacrifice], after 1500-plus years of Passovers, was the last divinely sanctioned and authorized Passover ever held. Any Passover ever celebrated after this one is not authorized by God. It is a remnant of a bygone economy, of an extinct dispensation, of a covenant no longer in vogue. It is vestigial. It serves no significant purpose. Jesus here celebrated the Passover as a way to bring it to its end. The bell tolled in the upper room for the old economy. Christ ended the long years of Passover and began a new memorial feast which He begins to institute in verse 26 [of Matthew 26]. And this new feast is the feast not of the old economy but the new economy, not the old covenant but the new covenant, not the Old Testament but the New Testament, not looking to a lamb in Egypt but a Lamb of God on a hill of Calvary. So, Jesus ends the old before He begins the new. And after having drawn the curtain on the Passover of the old economy, He institutes the feast of the new.
John MacArthur

EVENING

EVENING

EVENING, The

  1. The day originally began with # Ge 1:5
  2. Divided into two, commencing at 3 o’clock, and sunset # Ex 12:6 Nu 9:3
  3. CALLED 3a) Even

    # Ge 19:1 De 28:67

3b) Eventide # Jos 8:29 Ac 4:3 3c) Cool of the day # Ge 3:8 4) Stretches out its shadows # Jer 6:4 5) The outgoings of, praise God # Ps 65:8 6) Man ceases from labour in # Ru 2:17 Ps 104:23 7) Wild beasts come forth in # Ps 59:6,14 Jer 5:6 8) A SEASON FOR 8a) Meditation # Ge 24:63 8b) Prayer # Ps 55:17 Mt 14:15,23 8c) Exercise # 2Sa 11:2 8d) Taking food # Mr 14:17,18 Lu 24:29,30 9) Humiliation often continued until # Jos 7:6 Jud 20:23,26 21:2 Ezr 9:4,5 10) Custom of sitting at the gates in # Ge 19:1 11) All defiled persons uncleaned until # Le 11:24-28 15:5-7 17:15 Nu 19:19 12) Part of the daily sacrifice offered in # Ex 29:41 Ps 141:2 Da 9:21 13) Paschal lamb killed in # Ex 12:6,18 14) The golden candlestick lighted in # Ex 27:21 30:8 15) The sky red in, a token of fair weather # Mt 16:2

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