Jesus looks in to the near future and sees his betrayal and death.

John 13:21-32fish

Feeling troubled, Jesus says that one of the disciples will betray him, but the disciples miss what he is really meaning and so don’t get the message. Judas is handed the piece of bread by Jesus and told do do the deed quickly.

Judas disappears into the night.

What is about to happen in the next few days will leave the world in a different place to any other time then and now.

It seems that the disciples were oblivious to the messages that Jesus had given. No wonder then that they would also deny any involvement with Jesus, even Peter.

But a message that was plain to them all, ‘I give you a new commandment that you love one another’.

A message as much for today.

Sue Martin

Assistant Priest St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London