Did You Ever Consider Judas Iscariot, the One Who Betrayed Christ Jesus Our Lord, to be a Gift of the Father to Jesus?! Read and Ponder This Then . . .

Judas Iscariot betays our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss.

A Deep Devotional Thought for the last day of the year December 31, 2025 from John Bunyan, early English Baptist pastor and author of The Pilgrim's Progress

Judas: A Gift to Jesus!

“While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled” John 17: 12

Some are given to Christ, that he by them might bring about some of his high and deep designs in the world. Thus, Judas was given to Christ. To wit, that by him, even as was determined before, he might bring about Christ’s death and so the salvation of his elect by his blood. Yea, and Judas must manage this business as that he must lose himself for ever in bringing it to pass. Therefore, the Lord Jesus, even in his losing of Judas, applies himself to the judgment of his Father. If he had not in that thing done that which was right, even in suffering of Judas so to bring about his Master’s death, by so doing, bring about his own eternal damnation also.

“Those,” said he, “that thou gavest me, I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled” (John 17: 12). Let us, then, grant that Judas was given to Christ, but not as others are given to him, not as those made mention of in the text; for then he should have failed to have been so received by Christ and kept to eternal life. Indeed, he was given to Christ; but he was given to him to lose him, in the way that I have mentioned before. He was given to Christ, that he by him might bring about his own death, as was before determined; and that in the overthrow of him that did it. Yea, he must bring about his dying for us in the loss of the instrument that betrayed him, that he might even fulfil the Scripture in his destruction, as well as in the salvation of the rest. “And none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.”