THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW - Chapter 26 - Verse 55

Verse 55. Against a thief. Rather, a robber. This was the manner in which they would have sought to take a highwayman of desperate character, and armed to defend his life. It adds not a little to the depth of his humiliation, that he consented to be hunted down thus by wicked men, and to be treated as if he had been the worst of mankind.

Daily with you teaching in the temple. For many days before the passover, as recorded in the previous chapter.