Went away (απελθων). Second aorist active participle of απερχομα. He went off under the impulse of Satan and after the indignation…

Chief priests and captains. See Matthew 26:14.

Absence of the multitude. The multitude, the people, were then fav…

Chief priests and captains. The latter term is used by Luke, and only by him in the New Testament, to refer to the officers who pr…

Was it not a sad thing that the betrayer of Christ should be one of the twelve? Yet deeply trying as it must have been to the heart of Christ, ther…

Theophylact of Ohrid: Having already said that the Chief Priests sought a way to put Jesus to death without incurring any d…

Luke mentions the presence of the “officers of the temple guard,” whose soldiers probably captured Jesus . Municipalities had their own officers an…

And he went his way
From Christ, and the rest of the apostles, out of Bethany; and when it was night, about two mile…

Christ knew all men, and had wise and holy ends in taking Judas to be a disciple. We are told here how he who knew Christ so well came to betray hi…