The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born — the two clauses hold together the divine plan and human responsibility. The Son of Man will go as it is written — the betrayal is within the divine purpose, the necessary path to the atoning death. But woe to that man — the divine plan does not remove the betrayer's moral responsibility. The woe is the most severe in the Gospel: better never to have been born than to have been the instrument of the Messiah's betrayal.

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