Mark 14:20

he answered and said unto them "Answered" is omitted in the best MSS. The intimation was made privately to St John, to whom St Peter had made a sign that he should ask who could be so base (John 13:23-26).

one of the twelve One of His own "familiar friends" (Psalms 41:9).

that dippeth with me "He who is just about to dip with Me a piece of the unleavened cakes into the charoseth" a sauce consisting of a mixture of vinegar, figs, dates, almonds, and spice, provided at the Passover "and to whom I shall give some of it presently" (John 13:26). To this day at the summit of Gerizim the Samaritans on the occasion of the Passover hand to the stranger a little olive-shaped morsel of unleavened bread enclosing a green fragment of wild endive or some other bitter herb, which may resemble, except that it is not dipped in the dish, the very -sop" which Judas received at the hands of Christ." Farrar, Life, ii. p. 290.