For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
Ver. 29. For some of them thought] An example of Christian simplicity. As bad men muse as they use, so good men measure others by themselves and so are often deceived, as here. "Charity thinketh no evil,"1 Corinthians 13:5 .
Or that he should give something to the poor] Christ had not much, yet had somewhat for the poor; so must the poor day labourer, Ephesians 4:28, the necessitous widow, Mark 12:42 .