Verse 18
Originally the Jews ate the Passover standing (cf. Exodus 12:11). However in Jesus’ day they customarily reclined to eat it. [Note: Mishnah Pesachim 10:1.]
"To betray a friend after eating a meal with him was, and still is, regarded as the worst kind of treachery in the Middle East [cf. Psalms 41:9]." [Note: Wessel, p. 759.]
The disciples heard for the first time that one of them would betray Jesus. Mark’s account stresses Jesus’ identification of His betrayer as one of the Twelve.
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