Verse 31
31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Ver. 31. All ye shall be offended because of me ] Why? what had that righteous one done? Nothing but that his cross lay in their way, whereat they stumbled shamefully, and left him to wonder that he was "left alone,"Isaiah 63:5; Isaiah 63:5 . Adversity is friendless ( αφιλον το ουστυχες ), saith one heathen (Ovid); Et cum fortuna statque caditque fides, saith another. Job found his friends like the brooks of Tema, which in a moisture swell, in a drought fail. Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
For it is written, I will smite ] This our Saviour purposely subjoineth, for their support under the sense of their base deserting him. A foul sin it was, but yet such as was long since set down of them; not without a sweet promise of their recollection, "I will turn my hand upon the little ones," Zechariah 13:7 ; or, I will bring back my hand to the little ones ( At reducam manum meam ad parvulos ), as Tremellius readeth it.
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