Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
Verse 22. Judas saith unto him. This was the same as Lebbeus or Thaddeus. See . He was the brother of James, and the author of the Epistle of Jude. How is it, &c. Probably Judas thought that he spake only of his resurrection, and he did not readily see how it could be that he could show himself to them, and not be seen also by others. (u)
Some understand these words of a temporal manifestation, and thing that Judas the brother of James, who spake them, still expected that Christ should be a temporal prince, and have such a kingdom as should be conspicuous to all the world, and therefore puts the question. How he could possibly shew himself to his disciples, and the world not see him?
Judas saith . . . not Iscariot--Beautiful parenthesis this! The traitor being no longer present, we needed not to be told that this question came not from him. But it is as if the Evangelist had said, "A very different Judas from the traitor, and a very different question from any that he would have put.