29For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
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Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? …
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-30)We have here the discovery of Judas’s plot to betray his Master. Christ knew it from the beginning; but now first he discovered it to his disciples, who did not expect Christ should be betrayed, though he had often told them so, much less did they suspect that one of them should do it. Now here, I. Christ gives them a general intimation of it (John 13:18): I speak not of you all , I cannot expect…
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