And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)
And because he saw it pleased the Jews - popularity being his ruling passion,
He proceeded further to take Peter also - whose loss, at this stage of the Church, though not so irreparable as it would have been at an earlier stage, would, besides other great evils, have deprived us of his inestimable First Epistle, not to speak of the Second.
Then were the days of unleavened bread, х hai (G3588) before heemerai (G2250), though not required, is well attested]. See the note at Mark 14:1. This is here mentioned to prepare the reader for the delay of his execution, and what grew out of this, about to be related.