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“Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” (John 6:70).
Yesterday we saw how the Lord Jesus really felt it when some of His followers left Him, and “walked no more with Him.” But there was something that affected Him even more: it was the fact that Judas Iscariot, one of His chosen disciples, was plotting to betray Him. The Lord even calls him a devil—a most serious word to use. The Lord does not say “a demon,” but rather a devil, for it was Satan himself who would eventually enter into Judas and persuade him to betray the Lord in a most shameful way.
Peter did not know this, and when he said (in the previous verse), “We believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God,” he thought he could speak for all the disciples. He did not know that Judas was a traitor. Yet this did not stop the Lord from going to the cross; He was going to do His Father’s will, whatever the cost.
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