Luke 20:21

Διδάσκαλε, οἴδαμεν. There is something in this fawning malice, and treacherous flattery, almost as repulsive as the kiss of Judas. It shews that these men knew well ὑποκρίνεσθαι.

καὶ οὐ λαμβάνεις πρόσωπον. Galatians 2:6. Πρόσωπον, ‘a mask’; it is as though they would imply that Jesus was not only an Impartial Judge, too true for sycophancy, but also too keen-sighted to be deceived by hypocrisy. And the one blighting word ‘Ye hypocrites!’ shewed them that their words were truer than they had intended. From the phrase λαμβάνεις πρόσωπον (which a Greek would have regarded as a strange solecism in this sense) are formed the words προσωπολήπτης and προσωπολημψία; see Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 3:25; Acts 10:34, &c. It is a Hebrew phrase, Leviticus 19:15; Malachi 1:8.