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Mat 26:23.[1123] Ὁ ἐμβάψας, he that dippeth) The use of the same small dish, of which there were several on the table, and the dipping of the sop in it at the same moment with our Lord, was to be the distinctive mark of the traitor; see Mat 26:25. St Mark uses ἐμβαπτόμενος (present part. middle) to denote the same idea which St Matthew expresses by ἘΜΒΆΨΑς (1st Aor. part. act.); The former therefore employs the present in an indefinite sense.
[1123] Mat 26:21. ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν Verily I say unto you) Our Lord inserted His complaint as to the approaching treachery and uncleanness [Joh 13:10] of Judas in His discourses connected with the washing of the disciples’ feet, and with the Lord’s Supper, on the following day; but on both days the inquiry of the disciples as to the traitor, follows immediately after that complaint which He uttered. Both the complaint and inquiry of the second day are placed in Matthew and Mark, before the Lord’s Supper: in Luke they are placed after it. They are, therefore, to be regarded as simultaneous with it-that is to say, the institution of the Supper held a middle place between the beginning and continuation (progress) of the complaint and inquiry.-Harm., p. 510, 511.