<p>26:48&nbsp;<i>Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying</i>- These are the very words more commonly used together about signs being given to the Jewish world by the Lord. Judas was in every way a fake Christ, acting as the real disciple and the true Christ, when in fact he was the very opposite. This is why he as the &ldquo;son of perdition&rdquo; becomes the prototype of the antichrist figure in 2 Thess. 2. Note that &lsquo;anti-Christ&rsquo; doesn&rsquo;t mean so much one who is<i> against</i>&nbsp;Christ as one who mimics the real Christ but is in fact a false one and not the original, despite all appearances.</p><p><i>Whomsoever I shall kiss</i>- The Greek&nbsp;<i>phileo</i>&nbsp;literally means &lsquo;to love&rsquo;. I have mentioned several times the essential similarity between the betrayals of Judas and Peter that same night. When the Lord later asks Peter whether Peter has<i> phileo</i>&nbsp;for Him (Jn. 21:17), He is as it were asking &lsquo;Do you kiss Me, as Judas did?&rsquo;. He is probing Peter to see the similarities between himself and Judas, and to recognize that he was not in fact more loyal and devoted to Jesus than any of the others as Peter had once claimed- and that included even Judas.</p><p><i>That is He. Take him</i>- The Lord was a well known public figure, having taught openly in Jerusalem in the presence of huge crowds. The need to identify Him indicates that the crowd of hoods being used didn&rsquo;t know who He was, because they were not the types to attend teaching sessions in the temple, or perhaps they weren&rsquo;t locals, or maybe not even Jews. Again we find the ring of truth in how these records are written; if they were anything other than Divinely inspired, there would be all manner of lack of congruence in the details and information given.</p>