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Mat 26:55. Τοῖς ὄχλοις, the multitudes) Our Lord calmed their violence, so that, even though now under the influence of the chief men they did not return to sanity, they might do so more easily at a future period.-ὡς ἐτὶ ληστὴν, as against a thief) against whom, in a sudden tumult, all staves are used for arms.-καθʼ ἡμέραν, daily) Especially from the Feast of Tabernacles, to that of the Dedication in the same year.-ἐν τῷ ἰερῷ, in the Temple) where you might easily have laid hold of Me.-οὐκ ἐκρατησετε Με, ye laid not hold on Me) An instance of Metonvmia Consequents; q. d. “You were not able to take Me before;” cf. Luk 22:53.[1156]
[1156] You took me not, i.e., rebuking their insincerity, “Ye were afraid of the people to take me openly.” So Olshausen. Beng. seems to make the idea implied this-Ye were not then able to take me, for “your hour and the power of darkness” were not then, but are now. Luk 22:53.-ED.
John, for a considerable time before his being beheaded, was kept in prison. But the world was obliged to permit Christ to walk at large, and discourse unrestrictedly, up to these His last moments.-Harm., p. 532.