The Friend Who Ate My Bread

Of all the pains in life, betrayal by a close friend may be the sharpest. David knew it. “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.”

To eat someone’s bread was to share their table and their trust. The betrayal came from inside the circle.

At the last supper, Jesus quoted those very words. “I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.” He knew who would betray him. He washed his feet anyway, and shared bread with him anyway.

If you have been hurt by someone close, Jesus knows that pain from the inside. He didn’t just read about betrayal. He sat at the table with it, and he loved to the end.