Passion 6. Indication of the Betrayer(Mt 26,21-25; Mc 14,18-21; Lc 22,21-23; Jn 13,21-32)Mt 26,21And as they wereeating, He said, “Truly,I say to you, one of youwill betray Me.“Mc 14,18And as they were at tableeating, Jesus said, “Truly, Isay to you, one of you willbetray Me, one who is eatingwith Me.”Lc 22,21'But behold thehand of him whobetrays me is withme on the table.’Jn 13,21When Jesus had thus spoken,He was troubled in spirit, andtestified, “Truly, truly, I say toyou, one of you will betrayMe.”Jesus interrupted His teaching on apostleship. The thought of Judas returned to Him, agonizingly. The crimeof the traitor horrifies Him. Emotion overwhelmed Him suddenly. He could no longer refrain from sharingthis with the disciples. The Synoptics have summarized this painful moment. John complemented them; hewas closely involved in this matter. This is the third time we see Jesus "being troubled," as the events of thepassion begin to unfold (11:33; 12:27; later 14:1,27). Jesus has not awaited everything He knew was going tocome with stoic indifference. Saint Augustine (Tract. 60:3): "Perish the arguments of the philosophers whoclaim to make the sage an impassive being." He reads into the depths of the soul of the hypocritical Judas,and the sight of such ingratitude tore from Him His cry of sadness.In Luke the treason of Judas follows the institution of the eucharist; in Matthew and Mark it precedes theSupper. The order followed by Luke is probably a literary arrangement; it seems that his account does notunfold according to a chronological sequence. According to P. Lagrange1, Luke recounts a series of speechesby Jesus after the Last Supper, from which he did not want to distract the announcement of the betrayal.Using his typical method ('exclusion method2,' cf. 1:64), he first narrates everything concerning the fooditems taken during the Supper - the lamb (v. 15f), the wine (17f), and the Eucharist under the species of bread(19) and wine (20). Then, without alerting t...