Having received the sop (λαβων το ψωμιον). Second aorist active participle of λαμβανω. Judas knew what Jesus meant, however ignora…

It was night. It was in the evening, or early part of the night. What is recorded in the following chapters took place in the same night.<…

He then having received the sop.—Compare Note on John 13:27. The narrative is resumed from that point,[Reference John 13:…

St. John Chrysostom: After His twofold promise of assistance to the Apostles in their future labors, our Lord remembered that …

The repetition of the phrase “As soon as Judas had taken the bread” (cf. v.27) indicates that Satan’s control of Judas and Judas’s departure from t…

He then having, received the sop As soon as ever he received it, he went immediately out;

Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death without such trouble of spirit as he now showed when he spoke of Judas. The sins of Chris…

1. We now see the betrayal itself, after it was predicted.

   First, we see that Judas was allowed to do what was predicted; and second,…