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Joh 18:24. Ἀπέστειλεν, sent) One or two editions supply οὖν, or δὲ, or τέ. There is no need of doing so.[384] That Jesus had been led by Annas to Caiaphas, had been indicated by John, in Joh 18:15, by the verb συνεισῆλθε, and by the very appellation High Priest being so often repeated. But now he takes up again this very circumstance, and records it more expressly in conjunction with the mention of His being bound, in which state the Saviour [both ingenuously confessed the truth (Harm., p. 536), and] received a most undeserved blow. Sometimes in a narrative there is put something out of the regular order of time, which is connected with those circumstances that receive light from it: ch. Joh 5:9, Joh 9:14, Joh 11:30; Act 4:22; Jer 29:29, compared with what goes before and what follows. It was in one and the same palace of the High Priest, although in different parts of it, that Peter thrice denied Jesus [This explains the connection with Joh 18:25].-δεδεμένον, bound) Joh 18:12.
[384] BLXΔ, C corrected, ab, read the οὖν; and so Lachm.: c and Vulg. “et misit.” But A omits it: and so Tisch.-E. and T.