“Surely it is not I, Lord?”

The early Christian community was deeply shaken by what Judas had done. That one of the inner circle, to whom he had confided so much, could have betrayed him, was shocking. That comes through in today’s Gospel when, after telling the twelve that one of them is about to betray him, what follows has the tension of a courtroom drama. One after another of them says, “Surely it is not I, Lord.”

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