And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
Ver. 21. And as they did eat, he said] With a great deal of detestation of so horrid a fact; to see the frontless traitor bear himself so bold among them, having now hatched so prodigious a villany.
One of you shall betray me] But shall any therefore condemn the whole twelve, as if there were never a better? This were to "offend against the generation of the righteous,"Psalms 73:15. This were to match in immanity that cruel prince of Wallachia, whose custom was, together with the offender, to execute the whole family, yea, sometimes the whole kindred. And yet this justice is done God's people many times by the Church malignant.