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The Last Supper And Betrayal
Every time, I read John’s account of the Last Supper, I am startled at its “modern” tone. Here, as nowhere else, a writer of the Gospels provides a realistic, slow motion portrayal. John quotes long stretches of dialogue and notes the emotional interplay between Jesus and his disciples. We have, in John 13-17, an intimate memoir of Jesus’ most anguished night on earth.
There were many surprises in store for the disciples that evening as they moved through the Passover ritual, laden with symbolism. When Jesus read aloud the story of the Exodus, the disciples’ minds may have understandably substituted “Rome” for “Egypt”. What better plan than for God to duplicate that tour de force at such a moment, when all the pilgrims congregated in Jerusalem.
Jesus’ sweeping pronouncement excited their wildest dreams: “I confer on you a kingdom,” He said magisterially, and, “I have overcome the world.”
As I read John’s account, I keep coming back to a peculiar incident that interrupts the progress of the meal:
“Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under His power,” John begins with a flourish, and then adds this incongruous completion: “so He got up from the meal, took off His outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around the waist.” In the garb of a slave, He then bent over and washed the grime of Jerusalem from the disciples’ feet.
What a strange way for the Guest of Honor to act during a final meal with his friends! What incomprehensible behavior from a ruler who would momentarily announce, “I confer on you a kingdom.”
In those days, foot washing was considered so degrading that a master could not even requires it of a Jewish slave. Peter blanched at the provocation.
The scene of the foot washing stands out (according to author, M. Scott Peck) as one of the most significant events of Jesus’ life. “In that one act, Jesus symbolically overturned the whole social order. Hardly comprehending what was happening, even His own disciples were almost horrified by His behavior.”
Jesus asked us, His followers, to do three things to remember Him. He asked us to baptize others, just as He had been baptized by John. He asked us to remember the meal He shared that very evening with His= disciples. And finally, He asked us to wash one another’s feet.
Later that evening a dispute arose among the disciples as to which of them was considered the greatest. Pointedly, Jesus did not deny the human instinct of competition and ambition. He simply redirected it: “the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves.”
That is when He proclaimed: “I confer on you a kingdom” — a kingdom, in other words, based on service and humility. In the foot washing, the disciples had seen a living tableau of what He meant. Following that example has not gotten any easier in two thousand years thereafter.
In the midst of this intimate evening with His closest friends, Jesus dropped a bombshell: One of the twelve men gathered around Him would, that night, betray Him to the authorities. The disciples “stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them He meant,” and began to interrogate each other.
Jesus had hit a nerve. “Surely not I?” the disciples responded in turn, exposing their underlying doubts. Betrayal was no new thought.
In conspiratorial Jerusalem, who knows how many disciples had been approached by Jesus’ enemies, probing for access. The Last Supper itself was shrouded in danger, the upstairs room arranged clandestinely with a mystery man carrying a jar of water.
A few moments after Jesus’ bombshell, Judas quietly left the room, arousing no suspicion. Naturally the group’s treasurer may have to excuse himself to purchase supplies or perhaps run an errand of charity, or settle the bill.
The name “Judas,” once common, has all but disappeared. No parent would want to name a child after the most notorious traitor in history. And yet now, to my own surprise, as I read the gospel accounts, it is Judas’s ordinariness, not his villainy, that stands out. He, like the other disciples, had been handpicked by Jesus after a long night of prayer. As treasurer, he obviously held the others’ trust. Even at the Last Supper, he sat in an honored place near Jesus. The Gospels contain no hint that Judas had been a “mole” infiltrating the inner circle to plan this perfidy.
How, then, could Judas betray the Son of God? Even as I ask the question, I think of the remaining disciples fleeing from Jesus in Gethsemane and of Peter swearing, “I don’t know the man.” when pressured in a courtyard…and of the eleven, stubbornly refusing to believe reports of Jesus’ resurrection.
Judas’s act of betrayal differed in degree, but not in kind, from many other disloyalties.
And you and I? How many times have we betrayed Jesus?
I repeat, Judas’s act differed only in degree from what the other disciples felt..so like us, too. When it became clear that Jesus’ kind of kingdom led to a cross, not a throne, each one of them shrunk away into the darkness.
And Judas was not the last of Jesus’ followers to betray Christ…everyday, we do likewise, as we sin…
Here lies the contrast between two human destinies…that of Peter and that of Judas. Both assumed positions of leadership within the group. Both denied their Master. There, the similarity breaks. Judas, remorseful, but apparently unrepentant, accepted the logical consequences of his deed, took his own life, and went down as the greatest traitor in history. He died unwilling to receive what Jesus had come to offer him. Peter, humiliated but still open to Jesus’ message of grace and forgiveness, went on to lead a revival in Jerusalem, and did not stop until he had reached Rome.
Where are you in this picture?
As you read this, see if you could formulate your answer. Are we on the road…like Peter…spreading the Word of God, or have we dissolved into the background shadows?
What is it in our lives that stops us, prevents us, refrains us..from speaking, spreading, talking about Jesus….? Nothing, except ourselves. No one except ourselves…
But why?
Why stop at the door of the church, as soon as the services are done..and we enter into another world. the world of the mercantile, temporal, acquisitive community where working for a living, does not include working for the salvation of souls, our own included?
Where am I going with all these writings?
Am I touching anyone out there? Touching any soul, any heart, any mind? Tell me…do tell me…
Pip had asked me to write to all of you about the Bible…I write without even reading the passages of the Bible. I write from memory..a memory two thousand and six years old…It is the memory of the heart.
You and I are both there with Jesus…we have just had supper with Him, and Jesus would be moving on to the Garden of Olives…
About the Author
An admirer of nature; all natural; the winds, the sea and the mountains; enjoys creative hobbies like reading, painting & music therapy. I also am passionate about meditation and alternative medicine. Passionate about anything of healing that requires analysis, research and gained new knowledge.