Consented (εξωμολογησεν). Old verb, but the ancients usually used the simple form for promise or consent rather than the compound.…

Chief priests and captains. See Matthew 26:14.

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

In the absence of the multitude.—The marginal reading, without a tumult, is perhaps nearer to the meaning of the original…

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 promised He undertook to deliver him into their hands; he laid himself under obligation to do it; he faithfully pr…

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…