Judas to Betray Jesus

 July 1, 2020

 

Mark 14:10 – 

 

Judas to Betray Jesus

Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.   And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.

If you are having trouble understanding Judas' betrayal of Jesus, John 6:70 gives the answer; Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

The Passover with the Disciples

And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”   And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,  and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’   And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”   And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

Why was it added that they found it just as He had told them because they had the same problem as many of us, a lack of faith?  We often think not me, if I had been with Jesus if I had been chosen, but you were, and you still doubt.  In Ephesians 1:4-5, “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.”  What about 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”

And when it was evening, he came with the twelve.   And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”   They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”   He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me.   For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

We understand that Judas hung himself and yet we have no understanding of what eternal hell 

will be for Judas, and you do not want to join him.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice