Ver. 52,53. See Poole on "Mat_26:55". See Poole on "Mar_14:48". See Poole on "Mar_14:49". It speaketh a great degree of rage and malice against our Saviour, that so great men, as the chief of the priests and the elders, should come out at midnight, in the company of the officers and soldiers, to apprehend Christ. From these verses it appeareth that some of them were there in the height of their zeal.