overed. St. James the Less,
passing his arm over the shoulder of St. Andrew, touches St. Peter
to tell him that the traitor is at his side. St. Andrew looks at
Judas with horror, and St. Bartholomew, at the end of the table, has
started up from his seat to regard him more intently. At the left of
Christ, St. James protests his innocence by a natural gesture. St.
Thomas, pressing near to Christ, seems to ask 'One of us?' St.
Philip, the youngest of the apostles, places his hand over his heart
and rises to protest his fidelity. St. Matthew repeats the terrible
words to the indignant St. Simon, who refuses to believe them. St.
Thaddeus, who has first told them to him, points to Matthew to
confirm them. The dying rays of evening light add deeper somberness
to the sad face of the Christ."
--_Stendhal, "History of Italian Painters"_
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When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and said,
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, one of you shall betray me."

The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke. There
was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom
Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoneth to him, and saith unto
him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaketh."

He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, said unto him, "Lord,
who is it?"

Jesus therefore answereth, "He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop,
and give it him."

So when he had dipped the sop, he took and gave it to Judas, the son
of Simon Iscariot. And after the sop, then entered Satan into him.
Jesus therefore saith unto him, "What thou doest, do quickly."

Now no man at the table knew why he spoke this to him. For some
thought, because Judas had the bag, Jesus said unto him, "Buy what
things we have need of for the feast"; or, that he should give
something to the poor. He then having received the sop went out
straightway: and it was night.

When therefore he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him. Little children, yet a little
while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews,
'Whither I go, ye cannot come'; so now I say unto you. A new
commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have
loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all {254} men
know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another."

Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lor