JUDAS ISCARIOT, C. H. Cayce Judas was in the church, and was sent out by the Saviour with the other eleven to preach. Thus have we an example and the lesson that some bad folks get in the church, and even occupy the pulpit. But Judas was not in the sacramental supper. The Savior instituted the sacramental supper at the time He ate the last Passover supper with His disciples. Now get your Bible and turn to Matt. 26 and read verses 17 to 25 inclusive. Then turn to Mark 14 and read verses 12 to 21 inclusive. These records show very clearly that while they were eating the Passover supper the conversation was engaged in as to who should betray the Savior. Now turn to John 13 and read verses 18 to 32 inclusive.
In these verses John tells of the same conversation recorded by Matthew and Mark as to who should betray the Savior, and remember that this conversation was engaged in while they were eating the Passover supper. John has it recorded that Jesus told who it was that should betray Him by saying, “He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when He had dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.”—John 13:26. There is no sop in the sacramental supper, but there was sop in the Passover supper. Then in verse 30 John says, “He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.” This makes the matter very clear that Judas left or went out while they were eating the Passover supper.
Then Jesus took the bread and wine, the substance of the Jewish Passover supper, and instituted the sacramental supper. Read now Matt. 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25. Now go again to John 13 and read verses 1 to 17 and you will find the account of what the Savior did, which account was omitted by the other writers. After giving the account of what the Savior did, John goes back and relates the conversation which took place, corroborating what the other writers had said concerning that conversation, which took place while they were eating the Passover. (Cayce’s Editorials vol. 4, ppg 339, 340)
C. H. Cayce He chose Judas as a disciple, and as a witness— yet Judas was a devil. Why He would choose a devil to the work of the ministry in the beginning of the gospel kingdom is something we cannot understand, unless he was to be an object lesson for His humble followers in the coming ages. We may know them now by their fruits. If they bear such fruits as Judas did, we may know what they are. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” He stands as an object lesson to us that such characters will betray the Saviour. They will betray His blessed truth. They will not do to trust. They can be hired to betray the truth and to betray the Lord’s true and faithful and humble followers. Judases creep into the church sometimes now, and we know that is what they are by their fruits. The Primitive Baptist July 18, 1916.