<p>26:23&nbsp;<i>And he answered and said: He that dipped his hand with me in the dish</i>- The past tense is important, for if the Lord was predicting a future event, then all the disciples would be looking carefully at the dish. &quot;Dipped&quot;,&nbsp;<i>em-bapto</i>, carries the suggestion that there was liquid or water within the dish. Lamb is greasy, and there would have been dishes of water on the table in which the diners dipped their hands. The Lord had done that at the same time as Judas, and must have pressed His fingers against those of Judas. But none of the others had noticed. Jn. 13:26 says that &quot;It is he to whom I gave the morsel of bread after I dipped it&quot;- perhaps meaning that the Lord had put a crumb of bread into Judas' fingers whilst their hands touched in the bowl. Any other reading of the incident faces the obvious difficulty that if indeed the Lord publicly pointed Judas out as the betrayer, there would have been no confusion as to why he went out into the darkness. And we would expect to read of an outcry amongst the 11 against Judas; but the record instead stresses that they totally didn't suspect Judas until he was out of the room. Mk. 14:20 adds that the Lord said that the man was &quot;One of the twelve&quot; who had dipped his hand with the Lord in the dish. This suggests there were others apart from the twelve eating at the table and dipping their hands in the dish. It was not therefore a closed communion. There would have been no need for such a &quot;large&quot; room (Lk. 22:12) if only the twelve were present.</p><p><i>The same shall betray me</i>- The Greek word translated &quot;betray&quot; really means 'to hand over'. This was yet future for Judas. The 'betrayal' in the English sense of that word had already happened.&nbsp;</p>