48
Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.”
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Verse 48. Judas wished to give them a sign, because Jesus had before been apprehended, and had escaped from them on account of their ignorance of his person; which on this occasion he could also have done, if such had been his pleasure. Saint John Chrysostom.
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