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John 6:71

John 6:71

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Now he spake concerning Judas the son of Simon the Iscariot £ being one of the twelve. Iscariot is most probably "of Kerioth," a town of Judah, mentioned in , though Westcott cites another Kerioth in Moab (). If this Kerioth, which Simon and his son Judas have degraded, be the Kerioth-Hezron, then it would seem that Judas was the only Judaean among the apostles. For he it was that was about to betray him being one of the twelve (cf. verse 64). ὁ παραδώσων gives a somewhat different turn of description to the futurity of the deed. Had it yet fully dawned on the soul of the traitor? Had he laid any plans to bring his Master to the point from which he turned so divinely? We know not.

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