Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews. — A stop should be placed after “captain.” The “band and the captain” were the Roman cohort (comp. Note on John 18:3) and their tribune (Chiliarch; comp. Mark 6:21). The “officers of the Jews” were, as before, the Temple servants (see above, John 18:3), and the apparitors of the Sanhedrin.
Took Jesus, and bound him. — Comp. Notes on Matthew 26:50; Matthew 27:2.