On the next day many people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
But on the next day, i.e. on Palm Sunday, five days before the Passover; the tenth day of the month Nizan, on which day the Lamb (the type of Christ) was to be killed, and on the fourteenth to be brought to Jerusalem. ( Exodus 12:3.) See notes to Matthew 21:7.