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After the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Jesus therefore said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
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A Point of No Return
Commentators emphasize this as a terrifying moment of finality. Satan had influenced Judas before, but after Judas accepted the sop—a final, rejected gesture of love from Jesus—his heart hardened completely. Scholars like Calvin explain that he was then "utterly given up to Satan." This serves as a solemn warning about the danger of repeatedly resisting God's grace until one's heart becomes unreachable.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
After the sop. After he had taken and probably eaten it. By this Judas saw that Jesus knew his design, and that he could not conceal his p…
Then entered Satan into him (τοτε εισηλθεν εις εκεινον ο Σατανας). The only time the word Satan occurs in the Gospel. As he had do…
19th Century
Anglican
And after the sop Satan entered into him.—The Greek expresses more vividly the very moment when the mind finally cast out…
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(27a) “Satan entered into him.” This moment was Judas’s last opportunity to renounce his treachery. If the other disciples were ignorant of Judas’s…
16th Century
Protestant
Satan entered into him. Since it is certain that Judas formed the plan to commit such a heinous crime only at Satan's instigation, why is …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And after the sop, Satan entered into him After he has taken and eaten the sop, or crust of bread, by which he was p…
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Our Lord had often spoken of his own sufferings and death without such trouble of spirit as he now showed when he spoke of Judas. The sins of Chris…
13th Century
Catholic
We now see the betrayal itself, after it was predicted.
First, we see that Judas was allowed to do what was predicted; and second,…
