<p>13:21 <i>When Jesus had said this, he was disturbed in his spirit, and testified: Truly, truly, I say to you: One of you shall betray me</i>- The Lord has just spoken of how His followers are representatives of Him and thereby of the Father; and attitudes to Him are attitudes to the Father. Perhaps this was why He was so upset, remembering that what Judas was doing to Him was in effect to God, and there would be such terrible judgment for it.</p><p>The Lord was able to attract all kinds of sinners to Him, when those who are spiritually marginalized tend normally to steer away from those who exude righteousness but no humanity. He was real, He really was who He appeared to be, there was total congruence between His words and actions; and He encouraged others in the same spirit to simply face up to who they were. And He would accept them at that. Yet He was real and human; although there was this congruence between His words and actions, consider how His spirit was &ldquo;troubled&rdquo;; &ldquo;now is my soul troubled&rdquo; (Jn. 12:27; 13:21). Yet He goes on to use the same word to exhort the disciples hours later: &ldquo;Let not your heart be troubled&rdquo; (Jn. 14:1, 27). Was this inconsistency, &ldquo;Do as I say, not as I do&rdquo;? Of course not. The strength and power of His exhortation &ldquo;Let not your heart be troubled&rdquo; was in the very way that His heart <i>had been troubled </i>but He now had composed Himself in calm trust in the Father. And Peter remembered that, as he later in turn exhorted <i>his </i>flock to not be troubled nor afraid under persecution (1 Pet. 3:14).</p>