55. “The Pasch of the Jews,” which had ceased, when St. John wrote this. The Christians celebrated the Christian Pasch. This was the fourth and last Pasch in the public life of Christ, which He celebrated a few days after, with His disciples. “Was at hand.” Our Lord was spending a few days at Ephraim, preparing with alacrity to be offered up, as the true Paschal Lamb, for the sins of mankind. “And many from the country,” such as needed to be purified from the several districts of the country. “To
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