Judah Convinces Jacob
Gen 43:1-11
Reuben was in a rush. Judah waited for Jacob. Reuben offered to kill his two sons if he failed to return with Benjamin. Judah offered himself accountable.
Jacob trusted Judah.
Enigmatic father – this seems to Reuben. Filled with irony; “it was Judah’s idea to sell Joseph” – but Reuben could never say that.
Yet in Judah, Jacob sees a man who knows what it means to have lost a son, two sons. He has known loss. He has known humiliation. He has forgiven and he has accepted forgiveness. He has known restoration.
Not innocent. Not naïve. Jacob somehow trusts this authenticity.
