28. "tl<s<irip, x.r.X., even as, etc.) The greatest example which could be adduced or imagined. — &ajcot<jj<ra/, to minister, to serve) See Rom. xv. 8. — *«/', x.r.X., and, etc.) An ascending climax. — rr\v -^v^v Avrov, His soul) i.e. Himself ; see Gal. i. 4, ii. 20. — Xvrpov, a ransom. — O.VTI TroXXwc, for many) A great ministry, and one of vast condescension. That for which a price is given, is in some sort more an object of desire to him who gives the price than the price itself. And the Redeemer spends Himself for many, not only taken as a whole, but also as individuals.
29. "0^X05 -roXiig, a great multitude) which had been in that city.1
30. Aiio, two) St Mark (x. 46) mentions only one, Barti- maeus, the most distinguished ;2 as St Matthew in the next chap ter mentions both the ass and the colt, St Mark only the colt which was actually employed by our Lord ; as St Luke (xxiv. 4) the two angels who appeared, St Matthew and St Mark, the one who spoke.
31. O/ Bz, x.r.x., but they, etc.) We must not listen to those who inculcate perverted shame or noxious decorum.
32. T/' 6'sXsrs ; ;c.r.?,., what will ye ? etc.) We ought sometimes in our prayers to make special petitions.
34. 2TXayp£v/<r0g/s, being moved with compassion) The compas sion of Jesus was aroused by every human misery. — i}x«X»64fj0ttv Avrp, they followed Him) with the multitudes mentioned in ch. xxi. 8, and without any one to lead them.3
1 And were subsequently present at His royal entry. — V. g.
2 The same one is meant also in Luke xviii. 35, that Evangelist having had occasion to transpose the order of the narration, owing to the fact that one of the two blind men made acquaintance with the Divine Physician on the way, when Jesus was entering Jericho. In the meantime, whilst the Saviour was dining or rather passing the night with Zaccheus, the other of the two blind men, whom Matthew adds to the former one, joined Bartimaeus. — Harm., pp. 434, 435.
3 Sc. as formerly, when they were blind. — Ei>.