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Mat_26:25. This final direct intimation regarding the betrayer ( ὁ παραδιδούς ), and addressed to this latter himself, is at variance with Joh_13:26 ff., where Mat_26:29 presupposes that it had not been given. Mat_26:25 is an outgrowth of tradition, the absence of which from the older narrative of Mark is unquestionably correct.
σὺ εἶπας ] a Rabbinical formula by which an emphatic affirmation is made, as in Mat_26:64. See Schoettgen. There is no such usage in the Old Testament or among classical writers. At this point in the narrative of Matthew, just after this declaration on the part of Jesus, we must suppose the withdrawal (mentioned at Joh_13:30) of Judas (who, notwithstanding the statement at Luk_22:21, was not present at the celebration of the last supper; see on Joh_13:38, Remark) to have taken place. Matthew likewise, at Mat_26:47, presupposes the withdrawal of the betrayer, though he does not expressly mention it; so that his account of the matter is less precise. The objection, that it was not allowable to leave before the Passover lamb was eaten, is sufficiently disposed of by the extraordinary nature of the circumstances in which Judas found himself; but see on Mat_26:26.