John 13:18–27

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

¹⁸“I am not referring to all of you;ⁿ I know those I have chosen.^o But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture:^p ‘He who shared my bread^q has turned^ar against me.’^bs

¹⁹“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe^t that I am who I am.^{u 20}Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”^v

²¹After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit^w and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”^x

²²His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^y was reclining next to him. ²⁴Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

²⁵Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”^z

²⁶Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,^a the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.^b

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”