Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
keep it up until the fourteenth day, etc.--Being selected from the rest of the flock, it was to be separated four days before sacrifice; and for the same length of time was Christ under examination and His spotless innocence declared before the world.
kill it in the evening--that is, the interval between the sun's beginning to decline, and sunset, corresponding to our three o'clock in the afternoon.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Exodus 12:1
Luke 22:14-18
John 12:12
1 Corinthians 5:7
1 Corinthians 11:23
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