And the scribes (κα των γραμματεων). Mark adds this item while Joh 18:3 mentions "Pharisees." It was evidently a committee of the …

And immediately, while he yet spake.—See Notes on Matthew 26:47-50. Note the reappearance of St. Mark’s characteristic “i…

The Venerable Bede: After our Lord had prayed three times and had obtained through His prayers that the Apostles' fear would be…

The fact that Judas is described as “one of the Twelve” (cf. v.20) keeps this tragic element of the story. Judas was accompanied by a crowd sent fr…

And immediately, while he yet spoke
The above words:

comes Judas one of the twelve …

Because Christ did not appear as a temporal prince, but preached repentance, reformation, and a holy life, and directed people's thoughts, affectio…