head-gear, the sandals, the girdle, and the taddcth or square outer garment with fringes. Delitzsch thus describes the dress of our Lord: “On His head He wore a white sudar, fastened under the chin and hanging down from the shoulders behind. Over the tunic which covered the body to the hands and feet, a blue ¢alleth with the blue and white fringes on the four ends, so thrown over and gathered together that the gray, red-striped undergarment was scarcely noticeable, except when the sandal- shod feet came into view ” (“ A Day in Capernaum ”).
Coat (yita@va). Or tunic. See on Matt. v. 40.
Without seam (dppados, or dpagos). Only here in the New Testament. From 4, not, and fdr, to sew together. Like the tunic of the High-Priest. Only John records this detail.
Woven (idavrés). Only here in the New Testament.
24. Vesture (iuaticpuov). Clothing, collectively. Rev., garments, for iuarva, is better than ravment, which is collective, while the word is used of the separate pieces of clothing.
25. There stood. Imperfect tense, were standing.
Mary Magdalene. Strictly, the (7) Magdalene. She is in- troduced abruptly, as well known.
26. Woman. See on ii. 4.
Behold. Canon Westcott remarks upon the four exclama- tions in this chapter—Behold the man! Behold your King ! Behold thy son! Behold thy mother ! as a remarkable picture of what Christ is, and what He reveals men to be.
27. His own home (ra teva). See on i. 11.
98-30. Compare Matt. xxvii. 45-50; Mark xv. 33-37 ; Luke xxili. 44-46.