clause interposed between the words of the Lord is an argument, that the words, This is My body, this is My blood, were said, during the time whilst they were eating, and whilst they wrere drinking. Whence the evangelists either prefix or else subjoin those words ; comp. note, Matt. iii. 7. All drank, even Judas ; for who is there that will say that Judas might have stolen away from the company in the midst of the supper 1 [Comp. ver. 17, 18, 22] [Nay, even in ver. 31, we may suppose that, under the word all, Judas is even still included. It is not un likely that he crossed the brook Kedron along with the Saviour and the disciples, and after that acted as conductor to the armed band which was waiting for Him in the neighbourhood. — Harm, p. 528.]
27. riypa-rrrcu, it is written) Comp. Matt. xxvi. 31, note.
30. 2i), thou) In antithesis to " yet will not I" ver. 29. — TJ big, before that twice} A very striking circumstance, that Peter would not collect [recover] himself at the first cock-crowing. [Comp. note on Matt. xxvi. 34.]
31. 'Ex vepiasou fj.aXXov, the rather, the more exceedingly}. Comp. ch. vii. 36, note. Peter, in this passage, rather (^aXXov) spake of his o\vn stedfastness, than trusted [believed] in the words of Jesus.
33. 'ExdapSiTa&ai, Hesychius writes, exdat&jSo;, exxXrixrog. Eus- tathius, ^aftffsTv, rb l<xl Sfcc r/i/og ijurXiffTftfiou.1
[35. Tlapt\6p «T' O.-JTOV y upa, the hour might pass from Him) The hour, He saith. Jesus knew that the cup would speedily be drained, and His passion speedily be terminated ; and as hereto fore He had been sure of the issue being good, so not even now had He any room for doubting it. This certainty of the issue does not in any degree detract from the love either of the Son delivering Himself up, or even of the Father delivering His Son up for us. Yet the cup and the hour struck Jesus with anguish ; for which reason He prayed for their passing from Him, subject to the condition of the Father's will, and the possibility of the case. — Harm. p. 527.]
36. 'A/3/35, o KaTqp, Abba Father) Mark seems to have added
is akin to Sfaea Si»op.a,i, wonder at some amazing sight being the connecting idea ; as in Lat. suspicio. — ED. and THANSL.