Luke 22:1-6

§ 120. TRANSACTIONS OF THE TUESDAY PRECEDING THE CRUCIFIXION, Luke 22:1-6 .

Compare notes on Matthew 26:1-16; Mark 14:1-11; John 12:2-7.

3. Then entered Satan into Judas After the supper at Bethany, as narrated by the other evangelists, at which the provocation produced a diabolical excitement in Judas’s mind. This entering of Satan into him is not to be interpreted as an actual possession, but as a filling his whole soul, by Satan, with his devilish spirit and purpose.

Surnamed Iscariot See note on Matthew 10:4. The town of Kerioth, from which Judas seems to be named, is mentioned in Joshua 15:25. Dr. Hackett identifies it with Khureitun, “a few miles south of Bethlehem.” “A dark spirit would find its own element in the gloomy scenery of Khureitun.”

Of the twelve A fact which both rendered the crime possible and aggravated its guilt. At the present time none but an apostle could have surrendered Jesus; for so great was his present influence with the people that the authorities needed to have it done in the absence of the multitude.

Compare notes on Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16.