But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Ver. 56. That the Scriptures, &c.] Which yet were no more the cause of the Jews' cruelty than Joseph was of the famine, than the astrologer is of the eclipse, or Tenterton steeple of the ebbing and flowing of the sea.
Then all the disciples forsook him and fled] Then, when there was no such need or danger to enforce them, Christ having capitulated with the enemy for their safety. They had leave to go free before; what stayed they for then? or why flee they now? This was the fruit and punishment of their former sleeping, Matthew 26:43. Had they watched and prayed then, they had not now thus entered into temptation.