All his acquaintance. — This is the only passage in which the word is used. St. Luke apparently employs it as intermediate between the spectators and the avowed disciples. Such may have been Simon, or Lazarus, of Bethany, or the rulers who believed yet did hot confess, or the owners of the ass and of the colt, or the proprietor of the house in which the Passover had been eaten.

The women that had followed him from Galilee. — St. Luke does not name them as St. Matthew and St. Mark do, probably because in Luke 8:2, he had already given the names of the most prominent among them.

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