They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”
In these verses we have, I. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples, the night before he died, with the joys and comforts of which ordinance he prepared himself for his approaching sorrows, the full prospect of which did not indispose him for that solemnity.
Commenting on Mark 14:12-31
And he answered and said unto them,.... In order to relieve their minds, and point out the particular person: it is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish; just at that very instant; See Gill on Mat 26:23.
And another said, Is it I? - This clause is wanting in BCLP, seventeen others, Syriac, Persic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Vulgate, and four of the Itala. Griesbach leaves it doubtful: others leave it out.