<p>26:50&nbsp;<i>And Jesus said to him: Friend</i>- During the few seconds between the kiss and the appearance of the armed men. See the reconstruction suggested at :49.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Do what you came to do- </i>AV &quot;Wherefore&quot;. The Greek&nbsp;<i>epi hos</i>&nbsp;doesn't simply mean 'Why?'. In this a word like&nbsp;<i>tis&nbsp;</i>would have been used. 'For what' is a reasonable translation. RV &quot;Do that for which thou art come&quot;- confirming a wicked man in the evil way he had chosen to take. And yet it seems to me that the Lord tried to save Judas to the last. This rhetorical question asked Judas to consider&nbsp;<i>why&nbsp;</i>he was doing this. One reason which the record gives is that he was interested in the money. He was a chronic materialist. He enquired how much he could receive for the job of betraying, and only then did he do it. The way he flung the coins down before committing suicide surely indicate how significant the money was to him. And the Lord knew that, and was asking him, even at this late moment, to consider&nbsp;<i>why</i>&nbsp;he was doing this- just for coins, pieces of metal. The Lord really was the good shepherd who searched for the lost until the very end, and sets a supreme example to us all.</p><p>'For whom' would be another possible translation of&nbsp;<i>epi hos&nbsp;</i>&quot;Wherefore...?&quot;. But why say this, when it was obvious? The Lord clearly knew what was happening- He knew the armed men were with Judas although hidden, and that they would now appear. He also knew that at least Peter had a sword and was keen to use it. In the crucial few seconds between the identification of Jesus with the kiss and the appearance of the armed men from the trees, the Lord knew that Peter could easily have killed Judas. The Lord may have been playing for time- to preserve Judas' life. Primarily this would've been in order to give Judas the possibility of repentance; but it was also to enable the foreseen sequence of events leading to the cross to happen. This makes sense of the Lord's statement at His trial, that if His Kingdom was immediate, then His servants would fight (Jn. 18:36). They wanted to fight, as Peter's rash action with his sword made clear, but the Lord disallowed them from doing this. We marvel at how conscious the Lord was on so many levels in bringing forward God's purpose, whilst allowing men the maximum possible opportunity to display faith, loyalty and repentance.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Then they came </i>- See the reconstruction suggested at :49.</p><p><i>And laid hands on Jesus</i>- The Lord uses the same expression about the sufferings of the faithful in the very last generation (Lk. 21:12), as He seeks to bring them to know the essence of His death, seeing that that generation will not taste of death but be given immortality at the judgment seat.&nbsp;</p><p><i>And took Him</i>- Literally, they had power over Him. The same word is used in Heb. 2:14 about how the Lord overcame the 'devil' who had the 'power' of death. They had the power, apparently, externally. But the paradox was that by willingly giving Himself over to it, He had power over the 'devil' of sin, both abstractly as sin, and also in all forms of its political manifestation, in this case, the Roman and Jewish authorities.</p>