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Joh_13:28-29. Οὐδείς ] Even John not excepted (against Bengel, Kuinoel, Lange, Hengstenberg, Godet), from whom the thought was remote, that now already was the treason to be accomplished.
πρὸς τί ] for behoof of what.
Joh_13:29. γάρ ] Proof, by way of example, of this non-comprehension. Some of the disciples had taken those words as an order, to hasten a matter of business known to Judas, the bearer of the chest. They had therefore two more definite suppositions between which they wavered, both produced by a helpless state of mind, but not irrational, since it is not said that they meant instantaneous attention to the command, even in the course of the night.
εἰς τ . ἑορτ .] belongs to ὧν χρ . ἔχ . There was therefore as yet no matter needful for the feast purchased. This, following as it does the statement of time already adduced in Joh_13:1, presupposes that the present meal was not the festal meal, for the latter belonged to the feast itself, which, according to Joh_13:1, was still impending (against Wieseler, pp. 366, 381, Tholuck, Lange, Luthardt, Baeumlein, Hengstenberg, Paul in the Stud. u. Krit. 1866, p. 366 f., and several others). See also Bleek, p. 129 f.; Rückert, Abendm. p. 27 f.; Hilgenfeld, Paschastr. p. 147; Isenberg, p. 10 f.
τοῖς πτωχοῖς ] placed first as the other subject referred to in this second supposition. Comp. Gal_2:10. This giving to the poor is likewise thought of as designed for the approaching celebration, because they attempted thereby to explain the present order to the purveyor.
In the transition into the indirect form of speech, ἢ , κ . τ . λ . must be supplied; or that He said that to him, in order that he, etc.