MATTHEW 26:50 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.”
Jesus said to him: friend, do what you came to do. Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. The friend address to Judas — the same formal address as in the wedding garment parable (Matthew 22:12) — is not warm but formal and distancing. The do what you came to do is not an encouragement but the recognition of the situation's irreversibility. The laying hands on and seizing is the arrest that the conspiracy planned.
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