How Comes A Close Disciple Such As Judas Iscariot Could Have Doubted The Powers Of Jesus Christ?
It is one thing to observe His Power. It is another thing to know His Ways. Consider these verses: 9WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED Me BY TESTING Me,AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS. THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION, AND SAID, ‘THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART, AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS’; (Heb.3:9-10) Israel saw God’s works of power which He exhibited in rescuing them from Egypt and sustaining them in the Wilderness. But when God told them to enter the good land, they had no faith, no trust in God, no love. Faith and love are His ways. Judas did not doubt the power of Jesus. The problem is that he didn’t enter into the realm of faith and love. Some think what Judas had in mind in betraying Jesus was that His arrest would compel Jesus to demonstrate His power to the Romans, thus achieving an overthrow of their imperialistic dominion. Judas would have financially benefited from such a regime change as he would be the treasurer. But when Judas saw Jesus did not defend Himself a
