And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Ver. 23. He that dippeth his hand, &c.] My fellow commoner, my familiar friend, Psalms 41:9. This greatly aggravateth the indignity of the matter. He was ex societate Iesu from the company of Jesus that betrayed him. So do the pretended Jesuits, Jebusites, to this day. Julius Caesar was slain in the Senate house by more of his friends than of his enemies, quorum non expleverat spes inexplebiles, of whom he had not offended, saith Seneca. But the wound that went nearest his heart was that he received from his son Brutus. Και συ τεκνον βρουτε, this pierced him worse than any daggar. Queen Elizabeth's grief and complaint was, that in trust she had found treason.