5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.



Ver. 5. Three hundred pence] That Isa_52:1-15 French pounds and more, as Budaeus computes it. She spared for no cost.



They murmured against her] {a} But Judas began: so dangerous a thing it is to converse with hypocrites. One rotten sheep may rot the rest. Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab una. Great danger there is, if not of infection, yet of defection. Peter by his halting compelled others to do so too, Gal_2:13, åíåâñéìùíôï .



{a} Murmur et fremitus indignantium significatur. Beza.