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Luk 13:15. Ὑποκριταὶ, ye hypocrites) The plural is used, including more persons, but addressed to one person; comp. Luk 13:17 [where all His adversaries are included]: as also in Luk 11:46, compared with Luk 11:45. There was some degree of reverence felt on the part of the ruler of the synagogue towards Jesus; and it was not owing to any peculiar prejudice of his own, but owing to the common error of the Jews on the subject, that he was led to oppose the Saviour.[130]-λύει, doth loose) A most apt illustration. Comp. λυθῆναι, to be loosed, applied to the woman in Luk 13:16.-ἀπαγαγὼν, having led away) Words are heaped together in order to show the amount of work [comp. ἐργάζεσθαι, Luk 13:14, in the complaint of the ruler] done on the Sabbath in such a case.
[130] However the Vers. Germ., following the margin of the 2d Ed., prefers the singular number in this passage.-E. B. Ὑποκριταὶ is the reading of ABabc Vulg. Iren. 236. Ὑποκριτὰ of the Rec. Text is only supported by D of the primary authorities.-ED. and TRANSL.