Mark 14:18

18 And [while] they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me."

Mark 14:18 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:18

And as they sat and did eat
Or "as they lay along"; for such was their posture at the eating of the passover; (See Gill on Matthew 26:20):

Jesus said, verily I say unto you, one of you which eateth with me
shall betray me; (See Gill on Matthew 26:21).

Mark 14:18 In-Context

16 And the disciples went out and came into the city and found [everything] just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

17 And [when it] was evening, he arrived with the twelve.

18 And [while] they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me."

19 They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, "Surely not I?"

20 But he said to them, "[It is] one of the twelve--the one who is dipping [bread] into the bowl with me.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were reclining at table")