The Friend

"And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come?" Matt. 26:50 Judas Iscariot was an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, it is strange, but there is no doubt about it: Jesus must have called him unto that office. Its equivalent in the Old Testament is the fact that Esau was born first and had the birthright over Jacob. Thinking and pondering about it, I thought that Judas must have sought the office, must have pressed himself upon Jesus at the beginning. I think that Judas saw...