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John 13:18

John 13:18
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I speak not of you all. What he had before said on the one hand, "ye are not all clean", Joh 13:11, for one of them was not; and on the other hand, when he put an "if" upon, or seemed to doubt of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I speak not of you all - That is, in addressing you as clean, I do not mean to say that you all possess this character. I know whom I have chosen - He here means evidently to say that he had not…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I speak not of you all - This is a continuation of that discourse which was left off at the tenth verse. The preceding verses may be read in a parenthesis.

I know whom I have chosen - I am not…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

John 13:18-30

We have here the discovery of Judas's plot to betray his Master. Christ knew it from the beginning; but now first he discovered it to his disciples, who did not expect Christ should be betrayed,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

I speak not of you all There is one who knows these things, and does not do them, and is the very reverse of blessed.

I know whom I have chosen The first -I" is emphatic: - Iknow the character of the…