John 13:21–30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to one of the most intensely dramatic and theologically dense scenes in all the four gospels. The air is thick with Passover intimacy, with the smell of roasted lamb and unleavened bread, and with the heavy words of a master preparing His disciples for His departure. Jesus has just washed their feet, a radical act of humility that has inverted their entire understanding of greatness. He has established a new kind of kingdom, where the king wears an apron and the throne is a basin of water. The scene is one of perfect communion on the surface, but underneath, the gears of cosmic treason are turning. And it is crucial for us to understand that these gears are not turning outside of God's control. The betrayal of Judas is not an unfortunate accident that God must scramble to fix.