Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen, [ exelexameen (G1586 ), 'Did I not choose'] you twelve, and one of you is a devil? 'Well said, Simon Barjonas, but that "we" embraces not so wide a circle as in the simplicity of thine heart thou thinkest; for though I have chosen only twelve of you, one of you twelve is a "devil." Remarkable expression, at a period comparatively so early, before yet, probably, the slightest evidence of it had come out to any but His eyes that spake it. It is not "hast," but "is" a devil; not only the tool, but the temple of Satan [not daimoon (G1142), but diabolos (G1228)].