9. The Evangelist sees in Christ’s care for the safety of the disciples on this occasion a fulfilment of His words recorded in xvii. 12. It is true those words as spoken seem to refer only to the time then past, but as Christ then knew that He would continue to guard the Apostles from danger during the few hours of His life that remained, He meant the words to express His care for the Apostles up to the moment of His death, and therefore on this occasion at Gethsemani. His present action was, accordingly, one fulfilment of what is recorded in xvii. 12. We believe that Christ’s care for the Apostles in the present instance regarded their bodies as well as their souls. That it regarded their bodies, may be fairly concluded from His words: “let these go their way;” and that it regarded their souls is clear from the consideration that if arrested now they would probably have fallen into sin by denying Him. 10. Simon ergo Petrus habens 10. Then Simon Peter having a gladium eduxit eum: et sword, drew it; and struck the percussit pontificis servum: servant of the high‐priest, et abscidit auriculam eius and cut off his right ear. And dexteram. Erat autem nomen the name of the servant was servo Malchus. Malchus. 10. The Synoptic Evangelists merely say that _one_ of those who were with Jesus struck the servant of the high‐priest, but St. John tells us that this one was Peter. The Synoptists may have suppressed Peter’s name through fear of inconvenient consequences to him, but now that the Prince of the Apostles was dead, there was no further reason for such concealment. We cannot say whether any other motive than a desire for historic completeness prompted St. John to give, as he does, the servant’s name as well as Peter’s. 11. Dixit ergo Iesus Petro: 11. Jesus therefore said to Mitte gladium tuum in vaginam. Peter: Put up thy sword into Calicem, quem dedit mihi the scabbard. The chalice Pater, non bibam illum? which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 11. *Put up thy sword into the scabbard.* The words are given more fully by St. Matt. (xxvi. 52, ff). *The chalice ... shall I not drink it?* In Matt. xxvi. 39, we read that on this same night, and in Gethsemani, before the arrival of Judas, Christ had prayed: “Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me;” but now, since it was not to pass, He accepts it willingly. 12. Cohors ergo, et tribunus 12. Then the band and the et ministri Iudaeorum tribune, and the servants of comprehenderunt Iesum, et the Jews, took Jesus, and ligaverunt eum: bound him: 12. The *tribune* was the commander of the cohort. χιλιάρχος, strictly taken, means the commander of one thousand men. See above on verse 3.