John 17:12. “I kept them in thy name.” He knew our sorrows; experience our trials; endured temptations; shared in our nature. His name: Ex.3:13- 15; 34:5-7; Num.6:23-27; 2Cor.13:14. They had need of being kept. They could not keep themselves. Judas was the son of perdition; a thief; a devil. He did not fall from grace, but he did fall from an exalted position, a high office. Judas may have been one of the 12 that our Lord might taste the sorrows of betrayal, or that, as a spy upon Christ, he might be called to testify, “I have betrayed the innocent blood” [Mat.27:4] that the scripture might be fulfilled.
John 17:12