And he said unto them,
With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
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Ephrem The Syrian
AD 373
He said, “I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until the kingdom of my Father,” to show that he foresaw his imminent departure from them. He said, “until the kingdom of my Father,” that is, until his resurrection. Simon Peter revealed in the Acts of the Apostles, “After his resurrection, during a period of forty days, we ate with him and we drank, on this first day of the week. This agrees with what he had said, “They will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God,” and after six days that was accomplished. Commentary on Tatian’s Diatessaron
