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Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Luke 22 and John 13.
When I was growing up, my mother had a copy of this painting on the wall of our living room. Later, when I was a junior in college, I had the opportunity to stand in front of the original in Milan and Leonardo da Vinci had become one who I admired.
I don't know that I will ever understand the relationship between Jesus and Judas Iscariot. Was he of another substance than you and me? Was he completely without conscience? When he became one of the disciples, was he knowingly a betrayer then? Did he think, particularly after seeing all that Jesus had done, that he could escape Messiah's purview? Satan cannot possess that which belongs to God; didn't the disciples see that this man was not on the team?
Nonetheless, his betrayal and kiss set into motion a series of events that the Hebrew prophets had long ago predicted, and in just a few days God will put into place the new covenant promised by the prophets and told of Christ at his last supper.
I enjoyed watching Dr. John Piper's video explaining this scene in: Judas Iscariot, the Suicide of Satan, and the Salvation of the World.
Who can comprehend all that took place at this table?
