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g here only ὑμῖν παραδώσω αὐτόν; in this sense,
bh Lk. xxii. 6
Oi δὲ © ἔστησαν αὐτῷ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια : 16. καὶ ἀπὸ τότε ἐζήτει 3 εὐκαιρίαν ἵνα αὐτὸν παραδῶ. 17. THe δὲ πρώτῃ τῶν ἀζύμων προσῆλθον οἱ μαθηταὶ τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ,
λέγοντες αὐτῷ, “Mod θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμέν σοι φαγεῖν τὸ πάσχα; ihere only. 18. “O δὲ εἶπεν, ΄΄ Ὑπάγετε eis τὴν πόλιν πρὸς τὸν δεῖνα, καὶ εἴπατε
jHeb.xi.28. αὐτῷ, Ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγει, Ὁ καιρός µου ἐγγύς ἐστι: πρὸς σὲ ) ποιῶ
τὸ ) πάσχα μετὰ τῶν μαθητῶν pov.”
19. Καὶ ἐποίησαν ot μαθηταὶ
ὡς συνέταξεν αὐτοῖς ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς, καὶ ἠτοίμασαν τὸ πάσχα.
20. Ὀψίας δὲ γενομένης ἀνέκειτο μετὰ τῶν δώδεκα.
41. καὶ
ἐσθιόντων αὐτῶν εἶπεν, ''᾽Αμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι ets ἐξ ὑμῶν παραδώσει
με.” 1 Δ9ΒΏΓΙ,Δ omit avre.
payment was made. Coined money was in use, but the shekels may have been weighed out in antique fashion by men careful to do an iniquitous thing in the most orthodox way. Or there may have been no weighing in the case, but only the use of an ancient form of speech after the practice had become obsolete (Field, Ot. Nor.). The amount = about three or four pounds sterling, a small sum for such a service; too small thinks Meyer, who suggests that the real amount was not known, and that the sum was fixed in the tradition to suit prophecy.—Ver. 16. εὐκαιρίαν, a good occasion, the verb, εὐκαιρέω (Mk. vi. 31), belongs to late Greek (Lobeck, Phryn., παρ]. ς eae Arrangements for Paschal Feast (Mk. xiv. 12-16, Lk. xxii. 7-13).— Ver. 17. τῇ δὲ πρώτῃτ.ἀ. The sacred season which began on the 14th Nisan and lasted for seven days, was two feasts rolled into one, the Feast of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and it was called by either name in-
differently.—arod, where? A much more>
perplexing question is: when? Was it on the evening of the 13th (beginning of 14th), as the Fourth Gospel seems to say, or on the evening of the following day, as the synoptical accounts seem to imply, that Jesus kept the Paschal Feast? This is one of many harmonistic problems arising out of the Gospel narratives from this point onwards, on which an immense amount of learned labour has been spent. The discussions are irksome, and their results uncertain; and they are apt to take the attention off iar more important matters: the essentials ot the moving tale, common to all the evangelists. We must be content to remain in doubt
22. Καὶ λυπούμενοι σφόδρα ἤρξαντο λέγειν αὐτῷ ἕκαστος
as to many Ροϊηίς.-- θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμεν, the deliberative subjunctive, without ἵνα after @éXers.—Ver. 18. ὑπάγετε, go ye into the city, t.e., Jerusalem.—mpos τὸν δεῖνα, to such a one, evidently no sufficient direction. Mk. and Lk. are more explicit. Mt. here, as often, abbreviates. Doubtless a previous under- standing had been come to between Jesus and an unknown friend in Jerusalem. Euthy. suggests that a roundabout direction was given to keep Judas in ignorance as to the rendezvous.—6 καιρός pov., my time (of death). Some (Grotius, Speaker’s Com., Carr, Camb. N.T.) find in the words a reason for anticipating the time of the Paschal Feast, and so one of the indications, even in the Synoptics, that John’s date of the Passion is the true οπ8.-- ποιῶ +. π., I make or keep (pre- sent, not future), a usual expression in such a connection. Examples in Raphel. --μετὰ τ. p.: making thirteen with the Master, a suitable number (justa φρατρία, Grotius), between the prescribed limits of ten and twenty. The lamb had to be entirely consumed (Ex. xii. 4, 43). Did Jesus and the Twelve eat the Paschal lamb ?
Vv. 20-25. The presence of a traitor announced (Mk. xiv. 18-21, Lk. xxii. 21-23).—Vv. 20, 21. ὀψίας δὲ y. It is evening, and the company are at supper, and during the meal (ἐσθιόντων av., ver. 21) Jesus made a startling announce- ment. At what stage is not indicated. Elsner suggests a late stage: ‘“*Cum fere comedissent; vergente ad finem coena,” because an early announcement would have killed appetite.—Ver. 21. παραδώσει pe, shall betrayme. General announcement, without any clue to the individual, as in Mk. νετ, 18.—Ver. 22.