John Trapp on Matthew 26:31

Verse 31. All ye shall be offended because of me] Why? what had that righteous one done? Nothing but that his crosse lay in their way, whereat they stumbled shamefully, and left him, to [non-Latin text not transcribed] Ovid. wonder that he was left alone, Isa. 63. 5. Adversity is friendlesse, saith one Heathen: Et cum fortuna, stat que cadit que fides, saith another. Job found his friends like the brooks of Tema, which in a moisture swell, in a drought fail. Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris. For it is written, I will smite] This our Saviour purposely subjoyneth, for their support under the sense of their base deserting him. A foul sinne it was, but yet such as was long since set down of them; not without a sweet promise of their recollection,Zach. 13. 7. I will turn my hand upon the little ones: Or, I willAt reducam manum meam ad parvulos. bring back my hand to the little ones, as Tremellius readeth it.