was wont to perform all things which were enjoined by the law. — 2o/, for Thee) Jesus was as the father of a family, surrounded by the family of His disciples.
18. Tii* dtii/a, a certain man) This word is put instead of a proper name.1 — 6 A/<3a<rx.a>.oj, the Master) Therefore the host in question was a disciple, but not one of the Twelve. — 6 r.aipog Mou, My time} which I have long foreseen and foretold, when I shall suffer. — TO/W rb -raffia, x.r.X., I celebrate the Passover, etc.) A cour teous mode of announcing the fact to that ready disciple at whose house the Master was about to celebrate the Passover. It is astonishing that some learned men should have called in ques tion, or denied the fact, of our Lord's having then celebrated the Passover; see ver. 17— 19, the commencement of ver. 30, and Luke xxii. 7, 8, 12, 14, 15.
23.2 *O J/AjSa-vJ/ag, he that dippeth) The use of the same small dish, of which there were several on the table, and the dipping of the sop in it at the same moment with our Lord, was to be the distinctive mark of the traitor ; see ver. 25. St Mark uses ifApavropivo; (present part, middle) to denote the same idea which St Matthew expresses by l/*/3a-4/as (1st Aor. part, act.) ; The former therefore employs the present in an indefinite sense.
24. 'r-ra/s/, goeth) Through Passion to Glory. — xa.6uc y\y?a.*- rai, as it is written) And therefore the woe does not affect the
could not be thrust forward to the Sabbath-day. There is to be added, 3) the consideration that the supper, which is recorded even by John, ch. xiii. 1, 2, was celebrated on Thursday, immediately before the feast of the Pass over. — Harm., p. 501, 502.
1 i.e. Our Lord mentioned the man's name, though St Matthew has omitted it.— (I. B.)
7 Ver. 21. xftyv hiya vpiiv, Verily I say unto you) Our Lord inserted His complaint as to the approaching treachery and uncleanness [John xiii. 10] of Judas in His discourses connected with the washing of the disciples' feet, and with the Lord's Supper, on the following day ; but on both days the inquiry of the disciples as to the traitor, follows immediately after that complaint which He uttered. Both the complaint and inquiry of the second day are placed in Matthew and Mark, before the Lord's Supper : in Luke they are placed after it. They are, therefore, to be regarded as simul taneous with it — that is to say, the institution of the Supper held a middle place between the beginning and continuation (progress) of the complaint and inquiry. — Harm., p. 510, 511.