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"THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE" 15
except the son of destruction, so that the scripture
has been fulfilled."
11 That "son of destruction" could have had life
through Jesus if he had remained faithful . But
though being so close to him as to take meals
regularly with him like a dear friend, Judas Iscariot
chose to lift up his heel against him . By this
he doomed himself to destruction, cutting himself
off from the Channel of life . Jesus felt no responsibility
for the loss of this traitor . Psalm 41,
verse 9, had foretold his treachery and, unforced,
Judas had for selfish motives chosen to fulfill the
prophecy . Yes, Jesus and his disciples had the
Holy Scriptures back there in their day . Several
centuries before Jesus' birth these sacred Hebrew
writings had been completed, all together thirtynine
books, from the books of Moses to that of
the prophet Malachi, and there were no apocryphal
or deutero-canonical books included among them .
These inspired Hebrew Scriptures were included
under three heads, The Law, the Prophets, and
the Psalms . Jesus here referred to the Psalms
which headed the third section of the Scriptures .
As a whole, those Hebrew Scriptures contained
the divine name "Jehovah" 6,823 times . Out of respect
for that holy name Jesus had watched over
his disciples while with them . After Jesus' departure
Jehovah God must watch over them for his
own name's sake, because they were a people for
his name.
1 1 . What Scriptures did he have? Whose name did they
set forth?