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Luke 22:3

Luke 22:3

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Then entered Satan into Judas,.... At the same time that the sanhedrim were sitting, and consulting about the death of Christ, Satan, or the adversary, as the word signifies, the devil, who is the enemy of the Messiah, the woman's seed, entered into Judas; not corporeally, as he did into those that were possessed by him; but he entered "into his heart", as the Ethiopic version renders it; he put it into his heart to betray him, as it is said in he stirred up, and worked upon the corruptions of his heart; suggested evil things to his mind, and baited his temptations agreeable to his malice and covetousness: and this man wassurnamed Iscariot; to distinguish him from another apostle of the same name; concerning this his surname, See Gill on "Mt 10:4",See Gill on "".

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