John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 40:21
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again ,.... Put him into the same office he was in before: and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand ; ministered to him in his office the same day, according to his dream and the interpretation of it: the Targum of Jonathan adds this as a reason of his being restored,"because he found that he was not in that counsel,'in which it was consulted to poison Pharaoh; see Gill on Genesis 40:1 . read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 40:20-23
Here is, 1. The verifying of Joseph's interpretation of the dreams, on the very day prefixed. The chief butler and baker were both advanced, one to his office, the other to the gallows, and both at the three days? end. Note, Very great changes, both for the better and for the worse, often happen in a very little time, so sudden are the revolutions of the wheel of nature. The occasion of giving judgment severally upon their case was the solemnizing of Pharaoh's birth-day, on which, all his... read more