25. There is no note of time; it is "And Judas answering" (apokritheis) "said."
26. What a turn to patient suffering!
29. Not ‘anew,' but "new" (kainon), 'of another kind.'
56. The form is that of inspiration. The Spirit is writing about the disciples. Matthew might have said 'We.' In Acts, where Luke joins, it is “We"; there the disciples were the subject.
64. Not ‘Hereafter,' but “From henceforth."
Chapter 27
31. John 19:4-15, comes in in the middle of this verse. Evidently Pilate was profoundly uneasy, and at last tried to pass it off with gibes against the Jews, but washing his hands of the business—a poor washing! Here the Jews put themselves under the guilt of Christ's death, in John rejecting all their privileges under Caesar's power.