Jesus became troubled in His spirit and testified,
“Truly, truly, I tell you that one of you will betray me, someone who is eating with me right now.”
The disciples looked at one another, upset and wondering who He was talking about.
They became very agitated and sorrowful. Each one asked the Lord,
‘Is it me?’
And He answered and said to them,
“It is one of the twelve. He who dips his hand with me in the dish, the same is the one who will betray me.
I am going to do what the Father has sent Me to do, as it is written in Scripture, but woe to the man who betrays the Son of Man.
It would be better if he had not been born.”
One of the disciples, the one who Jesus loved very much, was reclining on Jesus’ bosom. Peter beckoned to him and told him to ask the Lord whom it was that was going to betray Him.
And the disciple leaned back and asked the Lord,
‘Who is it?’
Jesus answered,
“It is the one I will give this bread to when I have dipped it.”
So Jesus dipped the bread and gave it to Judas Iscariot.
Judas answered the Lord and said,
‘Is it I, Teacher?’
Jesus said to him,
“It is as you say.”
And Satan immediately entered into Judas.
And Jesus said to Judas,
“Go quickly and do what you are going to do.”
Nobody knew what Jesus meant when He told Judas this. They supposed that Judas, who was in charge of the purse, was being sent on a mission to buy something needed for the rest of the feast.
Judas went out into the night.
