Did Judas participate in the Lord’s Supper?

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At the last supper of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in that upper room on the fateful evening before the crucifixion he instituted the feast of remembrance which we call the Lord’s Supper in which we spiritually eat his body and drink his blood in remembrance of him signifying our union and communion with him by his Spirit. There was a devil among the twelve, Judas Iscariot. There is controversy as to whether he partook of the supper hypocritically or at all. The evidence is inconclusive:

Firstly, in the order of the Passover seder among the Jews they partook of the sop, dipping the bread in the mixture of bitter herbs a while before the cup of redemption. It appears that it was after Christ dipped the sop and gave it to Judas he went out to do quickly as he was bid (John 13:26-27, 30). However in the account of Luke Christ states, “Behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table” and this was just after he had shared the bread and wine. So whether he did participate hypocritically or leave before it, he was condemned, “but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed.”

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