On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” So the disciples set out and went to the city, and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal. When it was evening, he came with the twelve. And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.” They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, “Surely, not I?” He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. (Mark 14:12-20, NRSV)
One of you will paradidomi me…
Doesn’t quite work does it. Jesus at the last supper said one of you will betray me, is the translation we often here and have learned.
Judas betrayed Jesus. Does that mean Jesus didn’t know what was going to happen? In another gospel in the garden, Jesus asks Judas, “Do you betray me with a kiss?” That is not the question of one who does not know what is happening.
So if Judas didn’t betray Jesus what did he do?
paradidomi is the Greek word used in all the gospels in this moment, and it means to give over, hand over, deliver up… Not betray in the sense that Judas was doing something that Jesus did not know was going to happen.
Jesus knew. Judas did his part.
Not betrayed. Handed over.
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