John 12:6

the bag Better, the box, the cash-box in which the funds of the small company were kept. The word means literally -a case for mouthpieces" of musical instruments, and hence any portable chest. It occurs in the LXX. of 2 Chronicles 24:8; 2 Chronicles 24:11, but nowhere in N.T. excepting here and John 13:29.

and bare The Greek word may mean either -used to carry" or -used to carry away," i.e. steal:comp. John 20:15. S. Augustine, commenting on -portabat," which he found in the Italic Version, and which survives in the Vulgate, says "portabat an exportabat? sed ministerio portabat, furto exportabat." We have the same play in -lift," e.g. -shop- lifting;" and in the old use of -convey:" -To steal" … "Conveythe wise it call." Merry Wives of Windsor1. 3. "O good! Convey? Conveyersare you all." Richard II. iv. 1.

what was put therein Literally, the things that were being castinto it from time to time; the gifts of friends and followers.