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Joh 13:24. Νεύει, intimates by signs [beckons]) from behind [at the back of] Jesus. The middle place was the seat of honour: Jesus was occupying it: above Him Peter, below Him John, seems to have had his place. There was a close intimacy between Peter and John, as appears from ch. Joh 20:2 [Mary Magdalene, after being at the empty tomb, “cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved”]; Joh 21:7; Joh 21:20 [They are associated together at Jesus’ appearing to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius; John saith to Peter, “It is the Lord.” Also after the dinner which followed, Peter asks as to John, “Lord, and what shall this man do?”] A silent intimation, rather than words, was here appropriate.-πύθεσθαι, that he should ask) The convenience, for the purpose, of the position with which John was favoured, admitted of this.