Matthew 26:20-25 "Rabbi, am I the one?"

Matthew 26:20-25

When it was evening, Jesus sat down at the table with the Twelve. While they were eating, he said, “I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.”

Greatly distressed, each one asked in turn, “Am I the one, Lord?”

He replied, “One of you who has just eaten from this bowl with me will betray me. For the Son of Man must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for the one who betrays him. It would be far better for that man if he had never been born!”

Judas, the one who would betray him, also asked, “Rabbi, am I the one?”

This, to me, is one of the saddest events involving the Disciples. After all the time they'd spent with Jesus, you'd think they'd all knowexactly who He is.

When He tells them that one will betray Him, the first 11 all respond by calling Him "Lord". And then Judas responds.

The difference in his understanding of Jesus' authority is stark and shows how it is that he is able to betray Jesus at all. Rabbi is Hebrew for Teacher, and Webster's Dictionary defines teacher as:

teach·er

noun \ˈtē-chər\

: a person or thing that teaches something

And while it's true that Jesus was, and is, a great teacher, He is so much more!

lord

noun \ˈlȯrd\

:  one having power and authority over others:

:  a ruler by hereditary right or preeminence to whom service and obedience are due

Jesus is a ruler by hereditary right through His father, our God.

There are days where I see Jesus as a teacher and days I see Him as Lord. Fortunately the teacher days are few and far between, but they still happen.

How do you see Jesus? Does he rule over you with power and mercy, or should He be up the front of a classroom somewhere, being ignored as He desperately tries to get your attention?