666........interesting.
If you read further on, you will see
Judas mentioned. And we all know what happened after the Last Supper when Jesus finished His famous
Garden discourse........
Judas and the minions of the Satan/Devil Jewish Rulers/Chief Priests show up........the false religious "rulers of the world".
"
Judas"
is also another name for "
Judah", the tribe Jesus was descended from
John 6:
66At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"
68Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
70Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" 71Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
Luke 22:3
Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve.
John 13:
2 The evening meal was underway, and
the Devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus
18 “I do not 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.' [Psalms 41:19]
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Then the longest discourse by Jesus in the NT before He is arrested, tried and crucified.........
John 12:31 "Now is the judgment of this world;
now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
John 14:30 "I will no longer talk much with you,
for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
John 16:11 "of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged
The Betrayal of Jesus
(Matthew 26:47-56; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:1-14)
John 18:3
Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the Chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;
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Judah is actually named as the "Rich Man" in this covenantle parable of Luke 16:
Luke 16 "Rich Man/Poor Man" parable.....The most misunderstood/misinterpreted Parable in the NT?
Lazarus and the Rich Man - Here a little, there a little - Commentary
LUKE 16:27 "Then
he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house, 28
for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.' " (
NKJV)
Yielding himself to his destiny, the rich man asks one more thing of his forefather Abraham. He pleads with him to send someone to warn his brothers, so that they may escape "this place of
torment" (
basanou), the testing and punishment that he was undergoing, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, and Zebulun (Gen. 35:23).
The fact that the rich man has
five brothers is a vital clue to his true symbolic identity.
Judah, the progenitor of the Jews, was the son of Jacob through Leah (Gen. 29:35). He had five full-blooded brothers: Reuben
This detail cements the identity of the rich man as the House of Judah, the Jews!