and given to the poor] Under a pretence of charity, and tender affection to the poor, he clokes his own covetous and theevish affction, which would have been singering and filhing some part of it for his own private, had such a sum come for their use into his hands. See John 12:6. though the other disciples, if they seconded him therein, might speak simply, not suspecting his sinister end, nor the true ground of his speech.