MATTHEW 26:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.”
Judas, who would betray him, answered: is it I, Rabbi? He said to him: you have said so. The specific exchange between Jesus and Judas: Judas' Rabbi (not Lord, as the other disciples used) and Jesus' you have said so is the confirmation that the narrator has already established for the reader — Judas is the betrayer, and Jesus knows it. The Rabbi communicates Judas' understanding of Jesus as a respected teacher rather than the Lord he confessed.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:25
The Lord had above foretold His Passion, He now foretels who is to be the traitor; thus giving him place of repentance, when he should see that his thoughts and the secret designs of his heart were known.
'With the twelve,' it is said, for Judas was personally among them, though he had ceased to be so in merit.
For this reason also, because in Christ’s Passion, wherein the true sun hasted to his setting, eternal refreshment was made ready for all believers.
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