SECTION XIX.
That the supper in Ioh. 13. was not the Passover Supper.
FIRST, It is very commonly held that the Supper in John 13. was the Passover Supper, and that Judas stayed not the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, for that our Saviour having dipped a sop into the bitter or sowre sawce, which they used to the Pas∣chal Lamb, and given it to him, Satan with it entring into him, he packed him away with, What thou doest do quickly: An opinion mistaken in the ground-work that it builds upon, and consequently in the structure built upon it. For that that was no pass∣over at all, the Evangelist makes it most plain in ver. 1. when he saith, it was before the Feast of the Passover, and Matthew in Chap. 26. 2. telleth, it was two days before, and in∣deed, two miles from Jerusalem, namely in Bethany: The serious Harmonizing of the four Evangelists together, at this place, will make this most clear.
Secondly, if then it were not the Passover Supper, there can be no Paschal Lamb looked for at it, nor no Haroseth, or sawce of bitter herbs to eat it with, but the meat that they were then eating, and the sawce in which our Saviour dipped the sop, was ordinary meat, and ordinary sawce.
Thirdly, Judas when he was packed away with his Quod facis fac cito, went not from Jerusalem to Gethsemanai, where Christ was apprehended by him on the Passover night, but he went from Bethany to Jerusalem, to bargain with the chief Priest, for his betraying▪ which when he had done, he returned to Bethany again.