47-53. The Traitor's Kiss. The Arrest. Malchus.

47. behold a multitude Composed of Levitical guards under their -general;" a Roman Chiliarch (-tribune"), with some soldiers, part of a maniple or cohort (σπεῖρα) from the Fort of Antonia (John 18:12); and some priests and elders.

one of the twelve It seems as if in narrating the scene the Evangelists unconsciously add the circumstance which to their mind branded the deed with its worst horror. For the terror which seized the multitude, the precipitate entrance of Judas into the garden, and our Lord's first words to him, see John 18:3-9.

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