John 13:18

I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL - the "happy are ye," of , being on no supposition applicable to Judas. I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN - in the higher sense. BUT, THAT THE SCRIPTURE MAY BE FULFILLED: - q.d., 'Wonder not that one has been introduced into your number who is none of Mine: it is by no accident: there is no mistake; it, is just that he might fulfill his predicted destiny.' HE THAT EATETH BREAD WITH ME - "that did eat of my bread" (), as one of My family; admitted to the nearest familiarity of discipleship and of social life, Hath lifted up...

18._I speak not of you all. _He again declares that there is one among the disciples who, in reality, is the very reverse of a disciple; and he does so, partly for the sake of Judas, in order to render him the more inexcusable, and partly for the sake of the others, ‘That they may not be overpowered by the ruin of Judas. Not only does he encourage them still to persevere in their calling when Judas falls away; but as the happiness which he speaks of is not common to all, he exhorts them to desire it with so much the greater eagerness, and to adhere to it the more firmly. _I know whom I have chosen. _This very circumstance — that they will persevere — he ascribes to their _election_; for the virtue of men, being frail, would tremble at every breeze, and would be laid down by the feeblest stroke, if the Lord did not uphold it by his hand. But as he governs those whom he has _elected_, all...

18-30 Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death, without such trouble of spirit as he now discovered when he spake of Judas. The sins of Christians are the grief of Christ. We are not to confine our attention to Judas. The prophecy of his treachery may apply to all who partake of God's mercies, and meet them with ingratitude. See the infidel, who only looks at the Scriptures with a desire to do away their authority and destroy their influence; the hypocrite, who professes to believe the Scriptures, but will not govern himself by them; and the apostate, who turns aside from Christ for a thing of naught. Thus mankind, supported by God's providence, after eating bread with Him, lift up the heel against Him! Judas went out as one weary of Jesus and his apostles. Those whose deeds are evil, love darkness rather than light....

Verse John 13:18. _I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL_] This is a continuation of that discourse which was left off at the tenth verse. The preceding verses may be read in a parenthesis. _I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN_] I am not deceived in my choice; I perfectly foresaw every thing that has happened, or can happen. I have chosen Judas, not as a wicked man, nor that he should become such; but I plainly foresaw that he would abuse my bounty, give way to iniquity, deliver me into the hands of my enemies, and bring ruin upon himself. _THAT THE SCRIPTURE MAY BE FULFILLED_] Or, _thus the scripture is_ _fulfilled_. Christ applies to Judas what David had said of his rebellious son Absalom, Psalms 41:9, who was one of the most express emblems of this traitor. See o

I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL - That is, in addressing you as clean, I do not mean to say that you all possess this character. I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN - He here means evidently to say that he had not chosen them all, implying that Judas had not been chosen. As, however, this word is applied to Judas in one place John 6:70, “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” it must have a different meaning here from that which it has there. There it evidently refers to the apostleship. Jesus had chosen him to be an apostle, and had treated him as such. Here it refers to purity of heart, and Jesus implies that, though Judas had been chosen to the office of apostleship, yet he had not been chosen to purity of heart and life. The remaining eleven had been, and would be saved. It was not, however, the fault of Jesus that Judas

EXPOSITION IV. THE FINAL MANIFESTATIONS IN WORD AND ACTION OF THE LOGOS INCARNATE, EXPRESSING ITSELF ABSOLUTELY AND TO THE UTTERMOST AS LOVE. (Jn 13-21.) In two divisions— A._ The inner glorification of the Christ in the presence of those who received and believed on him_. *** The Loges incarnate as life, light, love, and sacrifice, lavishing all his grace upon his own (Jn 13-17.). B._ The outer glorification of the Christ in his Passion and resurrection_. *** The fully manifested love laying down life that he might take it again, and lift

I SPEAK NOT OF YOU ALL. What he had before said on the one hand, "ye are not all clean", John 13:11, for one of them was not; and on the other hand, when he put an "if" upon, or seemed to doubt of their knowing and doing these things, John 13:17; or what he was about to say concerning his being betrayed, this he did not speak of them all: I KNOW WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN; not to apostleship, for they were all chosen to that, Judas as well as the rest, but to grace and glory, to everlasting salvation and happiness; of these he was well assured, that they were all clean, pure, and spotless, in the sight of God; were truly regenerated by the Spirit of God, and had an experimental and practical knowledge of the things he recommended by his example, and would be the happy persons he spake of;...

John 13:1. _Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end._ Our Lord Jesus Christ had a clear foresight of all he had to endure. Future things are happily hidden from our eyes. We do not even know the moment when we shall die, nor how it will be. It is well that it is so but our Lord was able to anticipate his sufferings, by knowing all about them: «Jesus knew that his hour was come.» It was all appointed, and nothing happens to any of us by accident, chance is banished from the believer's creed. There is an appointed «hour» for each one of us, and it will come in due season. «Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of the world unto the Father.» What a beautiful way of describing death! Christ's death was c...

JOHN 13:18 mou {C} Although metV evmou/ (î66 a A D K W D Q P Y ¦1 ¦13 28 33 700 it vg syrs, p, h, pal goth arm geo _al_) is much more widely attested than mou (B C L 892 1071 1230 copsa eth _al_), which is also the reading of the Septuagint, a majority of the Committee preferred the latter reading because metV evmou/ may be an assimilation to Mark 14:18...

CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The Washing of the Disciples' Feet. (John 13:1 .)_ 2. Instructions given; to Wash One Another's Feet. (John 13:12 .) 3. The Betrayal Foretold. (John 13:18 .) 4. His Own Departure and the New Commandment. (John 13:31 .) 5. The Denial of Peter Foretold. (John 13:36 .) We reach with this chapter the most precious portion of this Gospel. The multitudes are left behind. Israel has completely rejected Him and now He gathered His own beloved disciples around Himself and gave them the sweet and blessed words of in