Mark 14:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

There shall meet you a man, &c.— This is set in opposition to the good-man, or master of the house, Mark 14:14 and consequently means a servant of the lowest rank, or a slave, (Luke 12:36.) it being a servile office to draw water, as appears from Deuteronomy 29:11.Joshua 9:21. As Samuel, having anointed Saul, for the confirmationofhisfaithgavehimseveral predictions relating to some very contingent occurrences that he was to meet with in his journey (see 1 Samuel 10:2-7.); so our Lord seems by these predictions to have intended thesame with regard to his disciples; and also to give them a most important hint, that he foresaw all the particular circumstances which were to befal him at Jerusalem, when he went up thither for the next and last time before his sufferings. The sending them to Jerusalem in this manner seems to intimate, that he did not go thither himself that morning; so that it is probable he spent most of the day in retirement, for meditation and prayer.