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Mat_26:67. Those to whom Matthew here refers are the members of the Sanhedrim (as are also the τινές of Mar_14:65). Μετὰ γὰρ τὴν ἄδικον καταδίκην ὡς ἄτιμόν τινα καὶ τριωβολιμαῖον λάβοντες , κ . τ . λ ., Euthymius Zigabenus. Coarse outburst of passion on the verdict being announced. A somewhat different form of the tradition is adopted by Luke (Luk_22:63), who, moreover, represents the maltreatment here referred to as having taken place before the trial. The way in which harmonists have cut and carved upon the individual features of the narrative is altogether arbitrary. The account in Joh_18:22 has no connection with that now before us, but refers to an incident in the house of Annas, which the Synoptists have entirely omitted.
ἐκολάφ .] buffetings, blows with the fist. Comp. the Attic expression κόνδυλος .
ἐῤῥάπτ .] slaps in the face with the palm of the hand; ῥαπισμὸς δὲ τὸ πταίειν κατὰ τοῦ προσώπου , Euthymius Zigabenus; comp. Mat_5:39; Hos_11:5; Isa_50:6; Dem. 787, 23; Aristot. Meteor. ii. 8. 9; 3 Esdr. 4:30; Lobeck, ad Phryn. p. 176; Becker, Anecd. p. 300. It is in this sense that the word is usually taken. But Beza, Bengel, Ewald, Bleek, Lange, maintain that it is a blow with a rod that is meant (Herod. viii. 59; Anacr. vii. 2; Plut. Them. xi.), the sense in which the word is commonly used by Greek authors, and which ought to be preferred here, because οἱ δέ (see on Mat_28:16) introduces the mention of a different kind of maltreatment, and because in Mar_14:65 the ῥαπίζειν is imputed to the officers of the Sanhedrim, which, however, would not warrant us in identifying with the latter the οἱ δέ of Matthew.