When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.
While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth,
one of you will betray me -- one who is eating with me."
They were saddened, and one by one they said to
him, "Surely not I?"
Matthew 14:17-19
Footnote: Judas, the very man who would betray Jesus, was
at the table with the others. Judas had already determined to betray Jesus, but
in cold-blooded hypocrisy he shared the fellowship of this meal. It is easy to
become enraged or shocked by what Judas did; yet professing commitment to Christ
and then denying him with one's life is also betraying him.
It is denying
Christ's love to disobey him;
it is denying his truth to distrust him;
it is
denying his deity to reject his authority.
Do your words and actions match? If
not, consider a change of mind and heart that will protect you from making a
terrible mistake.
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All footnotes taken from the Life Application Study Bible, NIV
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