Verses 3-4: Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.
It is amazing, in a bad way, how this could happen. If Satan can enter "one of the Twelve" who literally lived in the presence of Jesus, then how susceptible are any of us? I think one of the greatest risks we run is our thinking that we are good enough and beyond the grasp of evil. Well, if Satan can reach one who was so close and spent so much time with Jesus, then I think none of us can assume we are off-limits. In fact, I would say the closer we are to Jesus, then the more attractive and tempting a target we are to evil- maybe this explains why some who confess to be close to God, sometime fall so publicly (I'm thinking of TV evangelists examples). On one had we would like to think we are one of those "targets" due to our proximity to God, on the other hand we don't want to be exposed to this type of danger.
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