John 13:18-38
In verse 33b Jesus says, “Where I am going you cannot come.” Then He says those two verses on “a new commandment” and “love one another”. But in verse 36 Peter comes right back to “Lord, where are you going?” One wonders if Peter even heard Jesus speaking of “a new commandment” and “love one another”! But if Peter missed it, that is so like me. I get so quickly distracted when reading Scripture or listening to a sermon that a number of verses or a number of sentences will pass me right by. It takes effort and discipline to really listen to what I’m reading or to what I’m hearing!
John has details on the betrayal that the Synoptic writers do not include. Not surprising in that there is much agreement that John was that disciple …whom Jesus loved who asked Jesus to identify the betrayer. (vv. 23b, 25) So if you buy the notion that John was “the disciple whom Jesus loved” and that John wrote this Gospel, then clearly John had more information on the betrayal than the Synoptic writers. [For more on “the disciple whom Jesus loved, see also John 20:2 and John 21:20, followed by John 21:24.]
See also: October 24 / John 13:18-30; October 26 / John 13:31-35; October 30 / John 13:36-38