With a holy kiss (εν φιληματ αγιω). In the synagogue men kissed men and women kissed women. This was the Christian custom at a later date and apparently so here. See 1. Thessalonians 5:26; 2. Corinthians 13:12; Romans 3:8; 1. Peter 5:14. It seems never to have been promiscuous between the sexes.