Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
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Bede
AD 735
The Jews had many feasts, but the principal one wasthe passover; and therefore it is particularly said, Before the feast of the passover.