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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Matthew 26:55

Matthew 26:55. Multitudes. Especially the rulers and temple-guards (Luke 22:52). Mark (Mark 14:48) says ‘answers,' i.e., to their actions, not their words. He was probably bound, at this time, but His protest does not imply a desire to resist.

As against a robber, not ‘a thief,' against whom no such display of force would be needed.

Sat. Unmolested and unlike a robber.

Daily. From day to day, as during the past week.

In the temple, the most public place in Jerusalem.

Teaching. Not unobserved, so that you needed to seek me; nor yet riotous or robbing, as your present conduct implies.

And ye took me not. They dared not (chap. Matthew 21:46); the method now adopted showed the malignity of an evil conscience, and also a deceitful purpose to turn the current against Him.

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