verses 1-5.Our Lord spoke of His sufferings as distant; now he speaks of them as immediate. At the same time, the Jewish council consulted how they could kill him in secret. But it pleased God to defeat their intention. Jesus, the true paschal lamb, was to be sacrificed for us at that very moment, and his death and resurrection would be public.
This chapter of Matthew is for me one of the saddest, I think of the love of God on humanity and the obedience of Jesus, we are not deserving of so much, but even so his grace reached us, Blessed and Worthy is Our Lord.