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MATTHEW 26:50 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 26:49Matt 26:51
“And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.”
Jesus said to him: friend, do what you came to do. Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. The friend address to Judas — the same formal address as in the wedding garment parable (Matthew 22:12) — is not warm but formal and distancing. The do what you came to do is not an encouragement but the recognition of the situation's irreversibility. The laying hands on and seizing is the arrest that the conspiracy planned.

Church Fathers on Matthew 26:50

Having said above that the Lord offered Himself of His own accord to His pursuers, the Evangelist proceeds to relate how He was seized by them.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · non occ.

'One of the twelve,' by association of name, not of desert. This shews the monstrous wickedness of the man who from the dignity of the Apostleship became the traitor. To shew that it was out of envy that they seized Him, it is added, 'A great multitude sent by the Chief Priests and elders of the people.'

Remigius · 9th century

Some may say that a great multitude came, because of the great multitude of those who already believed, who, they feared, might rescue Him out of their hands; but I think there is another reason for this, and that is, that they who thought that He cast out daemons through Beelzebub, supposed that by some magic He might escape the hands of those who sought to hold Him. Even now do many fight against Jesus with spiritual weapons, to wit, with divers and shifting dogmas…

Origen · 3rd century
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