Luke 6:16

6:16 Judas (son of James) was probably also called Thaddaeus (Matt 10:3; Mark 3:18). He was a different man than Judas Iscariot or Jude the half brother of Jesus (who wrote the New Testament book of Jude). • Judas Iscariot: Iscariot probably means “from Kerioth,” a village twelve miles south of Hebron.

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Luk 6:16. Ἰούδαν Ἰακώβου, Judas the son [but Engl. Vers. the brother] of James) This James begat Judas and James. Comp. Jud 1:1.

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8. which also was the traitor] Rather, who also became a traitor. “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” Joh_6:70; 1Jn_2:17; typified by Ahithophel, Ps. 12:9. If it be asked why our Lord chose him, the answer is nowhere given to us, but we may reverently conjecture that Judas Iscariot, like all human beings, had in him germs of good which might have ripened into holiness, if he had resisted his besetting sin, and not flung away the battle of his life. It is clear that John (at least) among the Apostles had early found him out (Joh_12:5, and that he had received from our Lord more than one solemn warning (Luk_12:15, Luk_18:25, &c.).

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And he came down with them,.... With the twelve apostles, from the top of the mountain, where he had been praying all night, and where he had been that morning, ordaining, and giving instructions to the twelve he had chosen:

and stood in the plain; in a lower part of the mountain, in a plain place on it; which was large, and capable of holding a great number of people; for it was still upon the mount, that Christ taught his disciples, and said many of the things hereafter mentioned in this chapter; see Mat 5:1.

And the company of his disciples: not only the twelve, but the large number out of which he had chosen twelve;

and a great multitude of people; who were hearers of him, and attendants on him, and who had a great esteem for him, though they were not as yet of the number of his disciples; who came

out of all Judea, and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon: drawn from these several parts by the fame of him, some for one thing, and some another; some of

which came to hear him: to hear him preach, and that they might know what manner of doctrine he taught: and others of them,

to be healed of their diseases; their bodily diseases, and some came perhaps for both.

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16 And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.

Ver. 16. {See Trapp on "Mat 10:2"} {See Trapp on "Mat 10:3"} {See Trapp on "Mat 10:4"} {See Trapp on "Mar 3:14"} {See Trapp on "Mar 6:7"}

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Judas, surnamed Thaddeus in St. Matthew x. 3. and in St. Mark iii. 18. At the head of his epistle he styles himself Judas, brother of James. (Bible de Vence)

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16. Judas the brother of James—See note on Mat_10:3. This “was the man of three names.” His given name doubtless was Judah; his two surnames, Lebbeus and Thaddeus, were words of nearly the same meaning, signifying hearty or courageous.

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Judas the brother of James; more accurately, Judas, or Jude, son of James, or simply Jamess Jude. So this disciple is termed in both the writings ascribed to St. Luke (the Gospel and Acts). In St. Matthew"s list we find a "Lebbaeus," and in St. Mark"s a "Thaddaeus" occupying a position in the third division which in St. Luke"s list is filled by "James"s Jude." There is no doubt that Lebbaeus and Thaddaeus were surnames by which James"s Jude, or Judas, was known generally in the Church. The necessity of some surname to distinguish this apostle was obvious. Already in the company of apostles there was a Judas, or Jude, who was afterwards known as "the betrayer." One, too, of the Lord"s so-called brothers, a figure well known in the society of the Church of the first days, was also named Jude. The meaning of the two epithets is somewhat similar; they both were probably derived from the apostle"s character Lebbaeus from the Hebrew bl (lev), the heart. Jude was probably so styled on account of his loving earnestness. Thaddaeus, from thad, a word which in later Hebrew meant the female breast, was suggested possibly by his even feminine devotedness and tenderness of disposition. The addition in St. Matthew"s catalogue to "Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thad-daeus," which we read in our Authorized Version, does not occur in any of the older authorities, "Thaddaeus" being only found in St. Mark"s list. And Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. Some scholars have derived "Iscariot" from as-cara, strangulation; or from sheker, a lie, ish sheker, the man of a lie; these derivations are, however, most improbable. The surname is evidently derived from the place whence this Judas came. Kerioth, possibly the modern town or village of Kuryetein, not far from Hebron in Judah. Kerioth is mentioned in Jos_15:25, ish-Kerioth, a man of Kerioth.

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16. ὃς ἐγένετο προδότης. ‘Who became a traitor.’ “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” Joh 6:70; 1Jn 2:17; typified by Ahithophel, Psa 41:9. If it be asked why our Lord chose him, the answer is nowhere given to us, but we may reverently conjecture that Judas Iscariot, like all human beings, had in him germs of good which might have ripened into holiness, if he had resisted his besetting sin, and not flung away the battle of his life. It is clear that John (at least) among the Apostles had found him out (Joh 12:6), and that he had received from our Lord more than one solemn warning (Joh 12:15; Joh 18:25, &c.).

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16.] Ἰούδαν Ἰακώβου—usually, and I believe rightly, rendered Jude the brother of James: see Prolegg. to Jude. On the question who this James was, see on Mat 10:3, and 13:55.

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16. Ἰούδαν Ἰακώβου. That there were two Apostles of the name of Judas is clear from Joh 14:22, although Mt. and Mk. mention only one; and the identification of their Thaddæus with the Judas not Iscariot of Jn. and with this Judas of James makes all run smoothly. Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου must be rendered “Judas the son of James,” not “the brother of James,” for which there is no justification. When Lk. means “brother” he inserts ἀδελφός (3:1, 6:14; Act 12:2). Nonnus in his Paraphrase (Μεταβολή) of Joh 14:22 has Ἰούδας υἱὸς Ἰακώβοιο. Ἰούδας ἀδελφὸς Ἰακώβου (Jud 1:1) is quite a different person, viz. the brother of James the )Lord’s brother. Tyn. Cov. and Cran. rightly supply “sonne” here, and Luth. also has sohn The error begins with Beza’s fratrem. Of this James, the father of Judas Thaddæus, nothing is known. Lk. adds the name of the father, because his arrangement places this Judas next to the traitor.

Ἰσκαριώθ. This epithet probably means “man of Kerioth,” which was a place in Judah (Jos 15:25), or possibly in Moab (Jer 48:24). Joh 6:71 confirms this; for there and Joh 13:26 the true reading gives “Judas son of Simon Iscariot”; and if the name is a local epithet, both father and son would be likely to have it. In this case Judas was the only Apostle who was not a Galilean, and this may have helped to isolate him. Other derivations of “Iscariot,” which connect the word with “lying,” or “strangling,” or “apron,” i.e. bag, or “date-trees” (καριωτίδες), are much less probable. We know nothing about Simon Iscariot. Farrar identifies him with Simon Zelotes, which is most improbable. Simon was one of the commonest of names. The MSS. vary between Ἰσκαριώθ, which is right here, and Ἰσκαριώτης, which is right 22:3. Here only is προδότης used of Judas: it occurs in the plur. Act 7:52; 2Ti 3:4; and in the sing. 2 Mac. 5:15, 10:13. All English Versions go wrong about ἐγένετο προδότης. Nowhere in Scripture is Judas styled “the traitor,” and ἐγένετο should be distinguished from ἦν: therefore, not “was the traitor,” but “became a traitor,” as the American Revisers proposed. Judas “turned traitor.” The difficulty about the call of Judas is parallel to the powers bestowed upon a Napoleon. The treason of Judas shows that no position in the Church, however exalted, gives security against the most complete fall.

The verb used of the treachery of Judas is never προδιδόναι, but παραδιδόναι (22:4, 6, 21, 22, 48; Mat 10:4; Mar 3:19; Joh 6:64, Joh 6:71). In class. Grk. προδιδόναι commonly has this meaning; παραδιδόναι rarely. Here the Lat. texts vary between proditor (Vulg.) and traditor (c f ff2 r) and qui tradidit eum or illum (d e).

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Judas. See on Thaddaeus, Mr 3:18.

Judas Iscariot. See on Mt 10:4.

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