195 Inverted Kingdom; John 13:21-38;
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Betrayal # One
And that final act of love becomes, with a terrible immediacy, the decisive movement of judgment. At this moment we are witnessing the climax of that action of sifting, of separation, of judgment which has been the central theme in John’s account of the public ministry of Jesus … (3:16–19). So the p 475 final gesture of affection precipitates the final surrender of Judas to the power of darkness. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has neither understood it nor mastered it. (Newbigin, p. 173)
Judas received the sop but not the love. Instead of breaking him and urging him to contrition, it hardened his resolve. At that point Satan (only here mentioned by name; cf. v. 2) entered into him: the expression probably signifies thorough possession.