Matthew Poole and continuators on John 13:29

29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag , that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast : or that he should give something to the poor .

How innocent are honest hearts? Charity thinketh no evil, (saith the Apostle) altho our Saviour had plainly enough deciphered him as the Traytor, by telling Iohn that he to whom he should give the Sop, was he; and then by giving it to Iudas, yet whether they all did not hear what our Saviour said to Iohn, or did not think of so sudden a Tragedy; they do not suspect that the hour was at hand, when Iudas should perfect his intended Villany; tho they heard our Saviour bid him get him out, and do quickly, what he had to do; yet Iudas being he who carried

that little stock of mony which Christ had, Chap. 12.6. they thought that that which our Saviour bid him do, as a work he had undertaken to do, was laying out some monies, either to buy some things which were necessary for them, for the seven days of the Feast of unleavened bread; either for food for them to eat, or for Sacrifices for them to offer.

Or that it was our Saviours mind, that he should out of this little stock, distribute something to the poor; they little thought that our Saviours words argued a giving him over to perfect the treacherous designs which he had conceived in his heart.