Mark 14:21

ὅτι, assigns a reason for the fact just stated. To fulfil Scripture (Psalms 41:9) the Son of Man must go from the earth through betrayal by an intimate. This verse contains an instance in Mk. of the construction μὲν δὲ (again in Mark 14:38 and in Mark 16:19-20). καλὸν αὐτῷ, good for him, without the ἦν as in Mt. For the construction vide on Mt. and Burton, M. and T. in N. T., § 248. ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος : this repetition (vide τῷ ἀ. ἐκ. above) gives a tragic solemnity to the utterance = good for aim, if he had not been born, that man! Cf. Mark 2:20, “days will come, etc., and then shall they fast, in that day”.