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Mat_26:47. Εἷς τῶν δώδεκα ] precisely as in Mat_26:14, and repeated on both occasions in all three evangelists. In the oral and written tradition this tragic designation ( κατηγορία , Euthymius Zigabenus) had come to be so stereotyped that if would be unconsciously inserted without there being any further occasion for doing so. The same holds true with regard to ὁ παραδιδοὺς αὐτόν , Mat_26:48; Mat_27:3.
ὄχλος πολύς ] Matthew makes no reference to the Roman cohort, Joh_18:3; his account, however, does not, at the same time, exclude it, as it is simply less precise. Luk_22:52 likewise represents the high priests and elders as appearing at this early stage among the throng; but this is an unwarrantable amplification of the tradition; see on Luke.
ξύλων ] cudgels, fustibus (Vulgate). Herod. ii. 63, iv. 180; Polyb. vi. 36. 3. Wetstein on the passage.
ἀπὸ τῶν , κ . τ . λ .] belongs to ἦλθε ; see on Gal_2:12.