| Geneva Study Bible He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. People's New Testament 13:30 Went immediately out. It is probable that the Lord's Supper was instituted, at this point, after Judas went out. It was, as we learn from Matthew, after the passover. Matthew's order is as follows: (1) The Passover (Mt 26:17-21); (2) the Exposure of Judas (Mt 26:22-25); (3) the Lord's Supper (Mt 26:26-30). This is John's order, save that he omits, because well known, to record the origin of the Lord's Supper here, and simply tells of the departure of Judas. Wesley's Notes 13:30 He went out - To the chief priests. But he returned afterward, and was with them when they ate the passover, Mt 26:20, though not at the Lord's Supper. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 30. He then, having received the sop, went immediately out-severing himself for ever from that holy society with which he never had any spiritual sympathy. and it was night-but far blacker night in the soul of Judas than in the sky over his head. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 13:18-30 Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death, without such trouble of spirit as he now discovered when he spake of Judas. The sins of Christians are the grief of Christ. We are not to confine our attention to Judas. The prophecy of his treachery may apply to all who partake of God's mercies, and meet them with ingratitude. See the infidel, who only looks at the Scriptures with a desire to do away their authority and destroy their influence; the hypocrite, who professes to believe the Scriptures, but will not govern himself by them; and the apostate, who turns aside from Christ for a thing of naught. Thus mankind, supported by God's providence, after eating bread with Him, lift up the heel against Him! Judas went out as one weary of Jesus and his apostles. Those whose deeds are evil, love darkness rather than light. | 
