MARK 14:50 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they all forsook him, and fled.”
Then everyone deserted him and fled — the fulfillment of the scatter-the-sheep prediction (verse 27) is immediate and total: everyone (all, pantes) deserted him. The unanimous commitment of verse 31 (all the others said the same) becomes the unanimous desertion of verse 50. The prediction is fulfilled exactly.
Church Fathers on Mark 14:50
After that our Lord had prayed three times, and had obtained by His prayers that the fear of the Apostles should be amended by future repentance, He, being tranquil as to His Passion, goes to His persecutors, concerning the coming of whom the Evangelist says, 'And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas Iscariot, on of the twelve.'
This is not put without reason, but to the greater conviction of the traitor, since though he was of the chief company amongst the disciples, he turned himself to furious enmity against our Lord.
For he who despairs of help from God, has recourse to the power of the world.
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