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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 13, 2022 - WEDNESDAY
GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 13, 2022
Wednesday of Holy WeeK
Gospel: Mt 26:14-25
14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, “What will you give me if I betray him [Jesus] to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him. 17On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” 18He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’” 19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal. 20When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve; 21and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?” 23He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 24The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” 25Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.”
Matthew’s account of how Judas betrayed Jesus is the most detailed and dramatized among the four Gospels. We learn from it that Judas’ decision to conspire with the chief priests is motivated by money. It is a demonstration of the tragic consequence of failing to heed the teaching of Jesus regarding the corrupting power of wealth. In Mt 6:24, Jesus already issued the warning: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” The Gospel of John, with its side comment about Judas stealing the contributions from the common money bag of the disciples, completes the profile of Jesus’ betrayer, whose devotion to mammon drives him to sell his own teacher and abandon the cause of the heavenly Kingdom. The dark side of discipleship, which Judas represents, is a possibility that we should always be vigilant about. Lord Jesus, deliver us from the danger of divided loyalties, and help us to choose you always above everything. Amen.
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GOSPEL POWER I APRIL 13, 2022
Wednesday of Holy WeeK
Gospel: Mt 26:14-25
14Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, “What will you give me if I betray him [Jesus] to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him. 17On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?” 18He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’” 19So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal. 20When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve; 21and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?” 23He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 24The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” 25Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.”
Matthew’s account of how Judas betrayed Jesus is the most detailed and dramatized among the four Gospels. We learn from it that Judas’ decision to conspire with the chief priests is motivated by money. It is a demonstration of the tragic consequence of failing to heed the teaching of Jesus regarding the corrupting power of wealth. In Mt 6:24, Jesus already issued the warning: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” The Gospel of John, with its side comment about Judas stealing the contributions from the common money bag of the disciples, completes the profile of Jesus’ betrayer, whose devotion to mammon drives him to sell his own teacher and abandon the cause of the heavenly Kingdom. The dark side of discipleship, which Judas represents, is a possibility that we should always be vigilant about. Lord Jesus, deliver us from the danger of divided loyalties, and help us to choose you always above everything. Amen.