And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Ver. 16. And from that time he sought] So it was no sudden, but a prepensed wickedness, done in cold blood, and upon mature deliberation. God's people when they sin, they are surprised, and taken before they are aware, Galatians 6:1. There is no way of wickedness in them, ordinarily,Psalms 139:24. It is of incogitancy: put them in mind, and they mend all. Or, it is of passion: and passions last not long. They deny not Christ that bought them: they can do nothing against the truth, they will not forego God upon any terms, they never sin with deliberation about this chief end: if they err, it is only in the way, as thinking that they may fulfil such a lust, and keep God too.