Luke 22:16

Not any more. This was the last Passover season in which followers of Christ might meaningfully participate. The rent veil in the Temple at the moment of Christ’s death upon the cross (see on Matt. 27:51) was Heaven’s sign that the symbols of the Jewish religious system became obsolete when Christ, to whom all these things pointed (see Col. 2:17), gave His life a ransom for many. Jesus was about to replace the symbols of the dead past with the living symbols of His own body and His shed blood (see Luke 22:19, 20; DA 652).

Eat thereof. Literally, “eat it,” that is, the “passover” (see v. 15).

Fulfilled. The final and complete celebration of deliverance from sin was to take place in the kingdom of “glory,” concerning which Christ had already told the disciples (see on Matt. 25:31). This statement by Jesus is probably a reference to “the marriage supper of the Lamb” (see Rev. 19:7-9), held in commemoration of the fact that “the Lord God omnipotent reigneth” (see vs. 1-6). For comments on a solemn religious feast as a symbol of the happiness of the saved in the eternal kingdom see on Luke 14:15, 16.

Kingdom of God. See on Matt. 25:31.