Jesus Knows Who Will Betray Him^(A)

¹⁸ While they were at the table eating, Jesus said, “I can guarantee this truth: One of you is going to betray me, one who is eating with me!”

¹⁹ Feeling hurt, they asked him one by one, “You don’t mean me, do you?”

²⁰ He said to them, “It’s one of you twelve, someone dipping his hand into the bowl with me. ²¹ The Son of Man is going to die as the Scriptures say he will. But how horrible it will be for that person who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for that person if he had never been born.”

Jesus Knows Who Will Betray Him^(A)

²¹ “The hand of the one who will betray me is with me on the table. ²² The Son of Man is going to die the way it has been planned for him. But how horrible it will be for that person who betrays him.”

²³ So they began to discuss with each other who could do such a thing.

Jesus Knows Who Will Betray Him^(A)

²¹ After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled. He declared, “I can guarantee this truth: One of you is going to betray me!”

²² The disciples began looking at each other and wondering which one of them Jesus meant.

²³ One disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, was near him at the table. ²⁴ Simon Peter motioned to that disciple and said, “Ask Jesus whom he’s talking about!”

²⁵ Leaning close to Jesus, that disciple asked, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶ Jesus answered, “He’s the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I’ve dipped it in the sauce.” So Jesus dipped the bread and gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.

²⁷ Then, after Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered him. So Jesus told him, “Hurry! Do what you have to do.” ²⁸ No one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹ Judas had the moneybag. So some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.

³⁰ Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went outside. It was night.