Matthew 26:23-24 23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. 24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. Jesus gave a completely new significance to the action. “This is my body:” During the Passover feast the Jewish householder took bread in his hand and said, “This is the bread of affliction which our fathers ate in the land of Egypt,” meaning, of course, that the one represented the other. By His words the Lord changed the whole significance and emphasis of the feast from looking back to the typical redemption from Egypt to faith in the redemption from sin accomplished by His death. The bread and wine were only outward symbols of our Lord’s death. Nothing in the Gospels indicates that these were to be viewed as a means of grace, sacraments, or that they were physically necessary for one’s salvation. It is almost as if each disciple began to question Himself. Jesus really did not tell them who it was. When He said one who dipped with Him, because they all did. Of course, Judas knew who it was. There are so many schools of thought on Judas. I personally believe that Judas fell to the desire of the flesh. Judas loved money more than anything else, even more than He loved Jesus. I believe Judas was a free agent of his own will, the same as we are. The reason Jesus knew who it would be was because Jesus, as well as the Father, had foreknowledge of what would be done. Jesus was looking ahead to Judas killing himself and all of eternity, when He said, it would have been better had he not been born.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:16:50 +0000
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