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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 26:16

Matthew 26:16. From that time. Probably Tuesday evening.

Opportunity. A time and place suited to the crafty policy of the Sanhedrin. The ‘opportunity ‘soon offered; only one night intervened.

To betray him, or ‘deliver him up.' The same word as in Matthew 26:2; Matthew 26:15. Judas was not merely to tell where they could take him, but himself to be the active agent in taking Him and transferring Him into the hands of His enemies (see Matthew 26:47-50; Matthew 26:57). So that ‘betray ‘is the real meaning.

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