Ver.19. And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.
Ver. 20. And He cometh home.
Ver. 21. And the multitude cometh together again, etc.
συνέρχεται: the crowd, partially dis
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persed, reassembles (implying lapse of an appreciable interval). Jesus had hoped they would go away to their homes in various parts of the country during His absence on the hill, but He was disappointed. They lingered on.— ὥστε, etc.: the crowding about the house and the demand for sight and succour of the Benefactor were so great that they (Jesus and His companions) could not find leisure, not even (μηδὲ) to take food, not to speak of rest, or giv- ing instruction to disciples. Erasmus (Adnot.) thinks the reference is to the multitude, and the meaning that it was so large that there was not bread for all, not to speak of kitchen (obsonia).—Vet. 21 introduces a new scene into the lively drama. The statement is obscure partly owing to its brevity (Fritzsche), and it is made obscurer by a piety which is not willing to accept the surface mean- ing (so Maldonatus—‘‘hunc locum difficiliorem pietas facit”), which is that the friends of Jesus, having heard of what was going on—wonderful cures, great crowds, incessant activity—set out from where they were (ἐξῆλθον) with the purpose of taking Him under their care (κρατῆσαι αὐτόν), their impression, not concealed (ἔλεγον yap, they had begun to say), being that He was in an unhealthy state of excitement bordering on insanity (ἐξέστη). Recent com- mentators, German and English, are in the main agreed that this is the true sense.—ot map’ αὐτοῦ means either specifically His relatives (“‘sui” Vulg., ot οἰκεῖοι a.—Theophy.), 5ο Raphel, Wetstein, Kypke, Loesner, with citations from Greek authors, Meyer and Weiss,