Quotes & Notes on:     John 2:13   

• John Wesley's Notes:
  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:

  * passover. Joh 2:23; 5:1; 6:4; 11:55; Ex 12:6-14; Nu 28:16-25; De 16:1-8,16; Lu 2:41
   

• Adam Clarke's Commentary:

     And the Jews' passover was at hand] This was the reason why he stayed but a few days at Capernaum, Joh 2:12, as he wished to be present at the celebration of this feast at Jerusalem.
  
  This was the first passover after Christ's baptism. The second is mentioned, Lu 6:1. The third, Joh 6:4. And the fourth, which was that at which he was crucified, Joh 11:55. From which it appears, 1. That our blessed Lord continued his public ministry about three years and a half, according to the prophecy of Daniel, Da 9:27. And, 2. That, having been baptized about the beginning of his thirtieth year, he was crucified precisely in the middle of his thirty-third.
   

• Family Bible Notes:

   (No comment on this verse).
   

• 1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
  Christ being made subject to the law for us, satisfies the law of the passover.
   

• People's New Testament Commentary:

     The Jews' passover was at hand. See Ex 12:1-28, for institution of the passover, It was celebrated yearly at Jerusalem. This is the first that the Lord attended after he began his ministry, and of this attendance there is no mention in the other Gospels.
   

• Robertson's Word Pictures:
   The passover of the Jews (to pascha tôn Ioudaiôn). The Synoptics do not give "of the Jews," but John is writing after the destruction of the temple and for Gentile readers. John mentions the passovers in Christ's ministry outside of the one when Christ was crucified, this one and one in Joh 6:4. There may be another (Joh 5:1), but we do not know. But for John we should not know that Christ's ministry was much over a year in length.
   

• Albert Barnes' Commentary:

     The Jews' passover. The feast among the Jews called the Passover. See Barnes for Mt 26:2, also Mt 26:3-17.
  
  And Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Every male among the Jews was required to appear at this feast. Jesus, in obedience to the law, went up to observe it. This is the first Passover on which he attended after he entered on the work of the ministry. It is commonly supposed that he observed three others-- one recorded Lu 6:1, another Joh 6:4, and the last one on the night before he was crucified, Joh 11:55. As his baptism when he entered on his ministry had taken place some time before this --probably not far from six months-- it follows that the period of his ministry was not far from three years and a half, agreeably to the prophecy in Da 9:27.
  
  {l} "passover" Ex 12:14
  {m} "Jesus" Joh 2:23; 5:1; 6:4; 11:55
   

• Jamieson-Faussett Brown:

  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Spurgeon Devotional Commentary:

  We have seen him there once before as a son in his own house, and here we see him in riper years as a son over his own house, the heir, exercising authority in the Father's palace.
   

• William Burkitt's Notes:

  (No comment on this verse).
   

• Matthew Henry's  Commentary:

    (No comment on this verse).

   

• Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:

   (No comment on this verse).
   

• The Fourfold Gospel:

     And the passover of the Jews was at hand. We get our information as to the length of our Lord's ministry from John's Gospel. He groups his narrative around six Jewish festivals: 1, He here mentions the first passover; 2, another feast, which we take to have been also a passover (Joh 5:1); 3, another passover (Joh 6:4); 4, the feast of tabernacles (Joh 7:2); 5, dedication (Joh 10:22); 6, passover (Joh 11:55). This gives the entire length of our Lord's ministry as three years and a fraction.
  
  And Jesus went up to Jerusalem. It was fitting that he should enter upon his full ministry in this city, as it was still the center of what was recognized as a heaven-revealed worship. The fitness of Jerusalem for such beginnings was afterwards recognized in the preaching of the gospel of the New or Christian dispensation (Ac 1:8).