Jesus had repeatedly warned about the treachery of someone within the ranks of the Twelve (6:71; 12:4; 13:2). He has just made it clear, once again, that one of them is not at all clean (13:10). Now, referring to those who will be ‘blessed’ by doing what he has told them (v. 17), he says, I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. It is possible to understand these words to carry an implicit tail, viz. ‘and Judas isn’t one of them’, making
