So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night. John 13:30
The last part of this verse is a short, but deep commentary that runs through the ages: "and it was night". For Judas, the betrayer of his master, it was a night of eternal ruin; for Jerusalem and the nation Israel, it was a night birthing the final rejection of their Messiah, and subsequent judgements coming to it; for the world, the night of nights that birthed its most glorious Light because out of the darkness of this night shun forth the Light that was to lighten its darkness. What a night!
But for Jesus, it was a night that brought Him to the hour for which He came into this world. It was a night much anticipated. It was a night when He will be tried in the kangaroo court of His enemies and condemned, but the transaction of that night, as horrendous and unjust as it was, was bearing upon it the salvation of the whole world. What a night! Out of the injustice that came out of this night, the justice of God was about to be satisfied bringing about the deliverance of the whole world. 'And it was night!'
Toni
