And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
De Cons. Ev., ii, 78: The order of the narrative is this. The Lord says, “Yeknow that after two days will be the feast of the Passover; . then assembled together the Chief Priests and Scribes; . then went one of the twelve.”Thus the narrative of what took place at Bethany is inserted by way of digression, respecting an earlier time between that, “Lest there be an uproar,” and, “Then one of the twelve.”.
Quaest Ev., i, 41: That the Lord was sold for thirty pieces of silver by Judas, denotes the unrighteous Jews, who pursuing things carnal and temporal, which belong to the five bodily senses, refuse to have Christ; and forasmuch as they did this in the sixth age of the world, their receiving five times six as the price of the Lord is thus signified; and because the Lord’s words are silver, but they understood even the Law carnally, they had, as it were, stamped on silver the image of that worldly dominion which they held to when they renounced the Lord.
