Matthew 26:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But when his disciples saw it— It appears from John 12:4-6 that none but Judas found fault with what this woman had done. St. Matthew has probably put the disciples in general, for one of the disciples; as he says elsewhere, with St. Mark, that the thieves reviled Christ, though it appears from St. Luke 23:39 that there was but one guilty of thatcrime. By the figure called enallage, the plural number is put for the singular, which Longinus mentions as an elegance in his treatise on the sublime. See Joshua 7:1; Judges 7:21 and compare Luke 23:36. John 19:29 with Matthew 27:48 and Mark 15:36. Some have thought that Judas Iscariot was the son of that Simon, in whose house the feast was made; but the name was so common, that it cannot be concluded with any certainty.