I speak not of you all.
] What he had before said on the one hand, "ye are not all
clean", ( John 13:11 ) , for one
of them was not; and on the other hand, when he put an "if" upon,
or seemed to doubt of their knowing and doing these things, (
John 13:17 ) ;
or what he was about to say concerning his being betrayed, this
he did not speak of them all:
I know whom I have chosen;
not to apostleship, for they were all chosen to that, Judas as
well as the rest, but to grace and glory, to everlasting
salvation and happiness; of these he was well assured, that they
were all clean, pure, and spotless, in the sight of God; were
truly regenerated by the Spirit of God, and had an experimental
and practical knowledge of the things he recommended by his
example, and would be the happy persons he spake of;
but
he observes, so it is, and will come to pass, that there is one
of you which will betray me:
that the Scripture may be fulfilled:
( Psalms
41:9 ) , as it literally F2 was in Judas's betraying
Christ. The passage is by many interpreted either of Ahithophel,
or of some other counsellor of Absalom's, or of Absalom himself;
and is applied to their conduct, with respect to David, at the
time of their rebellion against him; and which is thought to be
typical of the treatment Christ met with from an apostle of his:
but we do not find that, at the time of that rebellion, David was
sick, or had any disease upon him, from whence they might hope
for his death; it does not seem, as though it could be literally
understood of David at all, and of the behaviour of any of his
servants; but most properly of David's son, the Messiah, Jesus,
with whom everything in the psalm agrees; and particularly this
verse, which so plainly describes Judas, and expresses his base
ingratitude, hypocrisy, and malice: the former part of the text
is not cited, "yea, mine own familiar friend", or "the man of my
peace, in whom I trusted"; though it fully agrees with him, he
being admitted to great familiarity with Christ, and lived
peaceably with him; and who was intrusted by him with the bag,
into which the money was put, which was ministered, either for
the sustenance of him and his apostles, or for the use of the
poor: but our Lord thought fit to cite no more of it than what
follows, that being sufficiently descriptive of him; and
especially at this present time, when he was at table with his
Lord.
He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against
me;
he sat down with him at table frequently, and ate bread with him;
and was doing so, when Satan put it into his heart to betray him;
which is strongly expressed, by "lifting up" his "heel against
him"; and sets forth the ingratitude, wickedness, and cruelty of
him; who, like an unruly horse, that has thrown his rider, spurns
at him, to destroy him; and also the insidious manner in which he
did it; he supplanted, he tripped him, as wrestlers do, in order
to cast him down to the ground, and then trample upon him, and
triumph over him: he first (bram) , "laid snares for him", as Jarchi explains the
phrase used in the "psalm", and then (lydgh) , "he magnified his heel", he behaved
proudly and haughtily to him.