during the supper and had said, ‘Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?’ ” (21:20). John is thus deliberately casting the “disciple whom Jesus loved”—himself—in a position parallel to none other than Jesus. Specifically, he is implying that the way in which Jesus was closely and intimately related to God the Father resembles the way in which he, John, was closely and intimately related to Jesus. This closeness to God the Father, in turn, put Jesus in an ideal position to explain God and to