John Trapp on Matthew 26:56

Verse 56. That the Scriptures, &c.] Which yet were no more the cause of the Jews cruelty, then Ioseph was of the famine, then the Astrologer is of the eclipse, or Tenterton-steeple of the [illegible: 1 word] and flowing of the sea. Then all the Disciples for sook him and fled] Then, when there was no such need or danger to enforce them, Christ having capitulated with the enemy for their safety. They had leave to go free before: what staid they for then? Or why flee they now? This was the fruit and punishment of their former sleeping, vers. 43. Had they watcht and praid then, they had not now thus entred into temptation.