Then Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Teacher, is it I? He said unto him,
You have said.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The Evangelist relates how as they sat at meat, Jesus declares Judas 'treachery, that the wickedness of the betrayer may be more apparent from the season and the circumstances.
I rather think that Christ did this out of regard for him, and to bring him toa better mind.
This He said to comfort His disciples, that they might not think that it was through weakness that He suffered; and at the same time for the correction of His betrayer. And notwithstanding His Passion had been foretold, Judas is still guilty; and not his betrayal wrought our salvation, but God’s providence, which used the sins of others to our profit.
Though the Lord could have said, Hast thou covenanted to receive silver, anddarest to ask Me this? But Jesus, most merciful, said nothing of all this, therein laying down for us rules and landmarks of endurance of evil. "He saith unto him, Thou hast said.”
