And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
Ver. 49. Hail, Master, and kissed him] But love is not always in a kiss, saith Philo the Jew; nor in crying Rabbi, Rabbi, as the traitor here did,Mark 14:45, out of a seeming pity of his Master's misery. There are those who think that he would have carried his treachery so cunningly, as if he had had no hand in it; and therefore kissed him as a friend, and so would still have been taken. (Aretius.)