And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
Ver. 18. The disciples of John and of the Pharisees] Beza notes, that only here, and Matthew 22:16; Luke 5:24, is mention made in the gospel of the Pharisees' disciples, unhappy doubtless in such perverse tutors, somewhat akin to Protagoras, of whom Plato writeth (in Menone.) that he bragged of this, that whereas he had lived sixty years, he had spent forty of them in corrupting of youth.