What does Matthew 26:16 Mean?

Context Summary

While Mary sacrificed a large sum of money to show her love to Jesus, Judas sold Him for the hire of a slave. See Zechariah 11:12.

The Lord had a great desire to eat this last meal with His own; and it was a proof of His loving anticipation of the strain to which they were to be exposed in soul and body, that He had made arrangements for it with some secret disciple. How glad this loving soul must have been to make the loan of that guest chamber!-but have you placed your heart at His disposal? See 1 Corinthians 5:7.

It was a time of testing as well as of fellowship. None of us should sit at the table of the Lord without careful self-examination and confession. We all need to say, Lord, is it I? and to ask that we may be clad in the white robes through His precious blood. Remember, also, that they who in all humility and self-distrust fear lest they should commit the deed of treachery, are always the ones to whom it will be impossible. [source]

Chapter Summary: Matthew 26

¹  Jesus foretells his own death
³  The rulers conspire against him
⁶  The woman anoints his feet
¹⁴  Judas bargains to betray him
¹⁷  Jesus eats the Passover;
²⁶  institutes his holy supper;
³⁰  foretells the desertion of his disciples, and Peter's denial;
³⁶  prays in the garden;
⁴⁷  and being betrayed by a kiss,
⁵⁷  is carried to Caiaphas,
⁶⁹  and denied by Peter