COMRADE, fellow — and in this Gospel never once a warm word. It is not philos, 'friend' in the affectionate sense; it is the cool, faintly formal address a superior uses to somebody he is holding at arm's length. ⚠ It occurs THREE times in the whole New Testament and all three are in Matthew: to the labourer grumbling about his wage (20:13), to the man with no wedding garment (22:12), and to Judas in the garden (26:50). Every one is spoken to somebody who has just broken faith, by the person they broke it with, and in the first two the man is about to lose something. Translations render it 'Friend' (KJV, ASV, NIV) because English has no equivalent that is chilly without being rude — so the coldness lives in the Greek word choice and has to be pointed out rather than translated. → first discussed at Matt 20:13