Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
The verse describes the pain of betrayal by one's own familiar, trusted friend who shared bread and table and then lifted the heel against the speaker. It foretells the betrayal of Christ and is fulfilled in Judas, one of His disciples who ate with Him at the Passover and received the supper emblems from Him while secretly cherishing plans to betray Him. Jesus Himself applied the verse to Judas and identified the betrayal beforehand as fulfillment of Scripture, revealing that He knew the traitor's hidden purpose and showing that He was not surprised or deceived. By so foretelling it, the verse gives the disciples evidence of His divine foresight and confirms His Messiahship, and that knowledge was meant to strengthen the faith of His true followers through His humiliation. The disciples did not understand His words at the time, but later they could see that He had foreknowledge and had continued to show patience and mercy even to a known betrayer.
Beyond Judas, the verse applies to Jesus betrayed by people to whom He had shown great regard. It applies also to believers when former close and best friends turn against them and become adversaries in temptation. It also expresses the fear that a trusted friend has betrayed one, as in Haskell's fear that a friend had turned against him, though such suspicions are often unfounded and magnified by Satan. Such betrayal by former friends does not justify bitterness or hard feelings; the love of Christ must remain alive and not be extinguished, so that those erring, beloved people may be won back to God.
The verse describes the pain of betrayal by one's own familiar, trusted friend who shared bread and table and then lifted the heel against the speaker. It foretells the betrayal of Christ and is fulfilled in Judas, one of His disciples who ate with Him at the Passover and received the supper emblems from Him while secretly cherishing plans to betray Him. Jesus Himself applied the verse to Judas and identified the betrayal beforehand as fulfillment of Scripture, revealing that He knew the traitor's hidden purpose and showing that He was not surprised or deceived. By so foretelling it, the verse gives the disciples evidence of His divine foresight and confirms His Messiahship, and that knowledge was meant to strengthen the faith of His true followers through His humiliation. The disciples did not understand His words at the time, but later they could see that He had foreknowledge and had continued to show patience and mercy even to a known betrayer.
Beyond Judas, the verse applies to Jesus betrayed by people to whom He had shown great regard. It applies also to believers when former close and best friends turn against them and become adversaries in temptation. It also expresses the fear that a trusted friend has betrayed one, as in Haskell's fear that a friend had turned against him, though such suspicions are often unfounded and magnified by Satan. Such betrayal by former friends does not justify bitterness or hard feelings; the love of Christ must remain alive and not be extinguished, so that those erring, beloved people may be won back to God.