u*;, bitterly) Tears are bitter or sweet, according to the emotion from which they spring. Even if Peter's weeping was not of long duration, his grief was so undoubtedly : see Mark xvi. 7. [All his former presumption ceased then and for ever. — B. G. V.] The tears of the godly, even of men, who do not easily weep from any other cause, furnish a great proof of the power, and consequently the truth, of Christianity.
1. n«m£, all) This council was more fully attended than that of the preceding night ; see ch. xxvi. 57. — uars ^avaruffai Airov, to put Him to death) In execution of the sentence which had been passed on the preceding night.
2. ' A^yayov xal •Trapedux.av Au-row, they led Him away and de livered Him) cf. ver. 9, and Gnomon on the latter part. — r& qyt/Awi, to the Procurator).
3. "On xarexpftri, that He was condemned) sc. Jesus, by the Priests. — lu,<Talu£\r$tig, repenting himself)1 Judas had not antici pated this catastrophe : he would now wish, if he could, to render that, which was done, undone.2 — aniffTpz-^i, brought again) sc. in the morning.
4. "H/iaprov, I have sinned) Thus also the damned will feel in hell.3 — a/Jxa otiuov, innocent blood) Miserably involved in his own darkness, he no longer acknowledges Jesus as the Messiah. — ri
Aaj, what is that to us ?) See how they dismiss, without
Jesus in the very act of his denying Him, his sin would have been even still more heinous. — V. g.
1 B. G. V. « Reute es ihn." B. H. E. « Gereute es ihn."—(l. B.)
2 Cf. Gnomon on ch. iii. 8, voc. psra.voia$. — (I. B.)
3 And O that the friends of Christ, moved by faith, love, and hope, would confess the truth as openly as men in despair are wont at times to do, when they feel that they have now no longer any opportunity of earning merit in the eyes of the world! — Harm., p. 542.