John 18:11

βάλε. See on John 5:7. S. John alone gives the words about the cup: the Synoptists alone (Matthew 26:39, &c.) give the prayer to which they obviously refer. Thus the two accounts confirm one another. Comp. John 2:19; John 12:8; and for the metaphor Psalms 75:8; Psalms 60:3; Job 21:20; Revelation 14:10; Revelation 16:19. S. Matthew gives another reason for sheathing; ‘all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword’ (Matthew 26:52). “Any zeal is proper for religion but the zeal of the sword and the zeal of anger” (Jeremy Taylor). For οὐ μή interrogative comp. Ruth 3:1; οὐ μὴ εὕρω σοι�; See on John 4:48.