F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Matthew 26:14-25
a False Friend Exposed Matthew 26:14-25 While Mary sacrificed a large sum of money to show her love to Jesus, Judas sold Him for the hire of a slave. See Zechariah 11:12 . The Lord had a great desire to eat this last meal with His own; and it was a proof of His loving anticipation of the strain to which they were to be exposed in soul and body, that He had made arrangements for it with some secret disciple. How glad this loving soul must have been to make the loan of that guest chamber!-but... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Matthew 26:6-16
SECOND SECTIONTHE ANOINTING AT BETHANY26:6–16(Mark 14:3-11; Luke 22:3-6; John 12:1-8)6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper [four days previous, on Saturday], 7There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat [reclined at table, ἀνακειμένου] 8But when his [the]21 disciples saw it, they had indignation [were indignant, or displeased, ἠγανάκτησᾱν, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9For this... read more