NEW TESTAMENT

John 13:18

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I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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Verse 18. Shall lift up his heel against me. It is the sense of those words, (Psal. 40:10) hath supplanted me; and they were spoken of Judas’s sin in betraying Christ. Witham.—Jesus Christ applies in this place to the perfidy of Judas, that which David appears to have said on occasion of the perfidy of Achitophel, who was thus a figure of the perfidious Judas. V.

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