For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor.
John Gill
For some of them thought,.... This was the thought of some of the disciples, it may be of all of them but John; because Judas had the bag: which was for the common supply of Christ and his disciples, and for the relief of the poor; See Gill on Joh 12:6. That Jesus had said unto him, buy those things that we have need of against the feast; the feast of the passover, which was to be two days after; and shows, that this was not the passover which Christ now ate with his disciples: or that he should give something to the poor; for whom Christ cared, and had a hearty concern, and for whom Judas had very little, notwithstanding his high pretensions.
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