Chapter I.—Of the Method in Which the Four Evangelists are Shown to Be at One in the Accounts Given of the Lord’s Supper and the Indication of His Betrayer. 2. Let us commence here, accordingly, with the notice presented by Matthew, [which runs thus]: “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to His disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.”1231 Both Mark and Luke also gave this section.1232 It is true that Luke has made mention of the cup twice over: first before He gave the bread; and, secondly, after the bread has been given. But the fact is, that what is stated in that earlier connection has been introduced, according to this writer’s habit, by anticipation, while the words which he has inserted here in their proper order are left unre- corded in those previous verses, and the two passages when put together make up exactly what stands expressed by those other evangelists.1233 John, on the other hand, has said nothing about the body and blood of the Lord in this context; but he plainly certifies that the Lord spake to that effect on another occasion,1234 with much greater fulness than here. At present, however, after recording how the Lord rose from supper and washed the disciples’ feet, and after telling us also the reason why the Lord dealt thus with them, in expressing which He had intimated, although still obscurely, and by the use of a testimony of Scripture, the fact that He was being betrayed by the man who was to eat of His bread, at this point John comes to the section in question, which the other three evangelists also unite in intro- ducing. He presents it thus: “When Jesus had thus said, He was troubled in spirit, and testi- fied, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That one of you shall betray me. Then the dis- ciples looked (as the same John subjoins) one on another, doubting of whom He spake.”1235 “And (as Matthew and Mark tell us) they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto Him, Is it I? And He answered and said (as Matthew proceeds to state), He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.” Matthew also goes 177 on to make the following addition to the preceding: “The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of Him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.”1236 Mark, too, is at one with him here as regards both the words themselves and the order of narration.1237 Then Matthew continues thus: “Then Judas, which betrayed Him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto 1231 Matt. xxvi. 26. 1232 Mark xiv. 22; Luke xxii. 49. 1233 [Luke’s first reference to the cup belongs to the passover celebration, in distinction from the Lord’s Supper.—R.] 1234 John vi. 32–64. 1235 John xiii. 21, 22. 1236 Matt. xxvi. 22–25. 1237 Mark xiv. 19–21. Of the Method in Which the Four Evangelists are Shown to Be at One in the Accounts Given of the Lord’s Supper and the Indication of His Betrayer. 401 Of the Method in Which the Four Evangelists are Shown to Be at One in the…