3Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
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For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. …
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. …
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. …
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We left Christ in the hands of the chief priests and elders, condemned to die, but they could only show their teeth; about two years before this the Romans had taken from the Jews the power of capital punishment; they could put no man to death, and therefore early in the morning another council is held, to consider what is to be done. And here we are told what was done in that morning–council, aft…
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