<p>14:19 <i>They began- </i>The idea is that they all burst out with the same question at the same time. And yet Mk. 14:19 records that they asked this &quot;One by one&quot;. The scene is imaginable- after initially all bursting out with the same question, they try to ask Him the same question personally in order to get an answer. Which is why Judas asks the question somewhat later. Again it is commendable that their very first reaction was to wonder whether they personally could be the betrayer- rather than 'Lord, is it&nbsp;<i>him</i>?'. But after realizing that it was not them personally, naturally they began to look at one another, wondering whom He was speaking of (Jn. 13:22). Although &quot;doubting of whom He spoke&quot; (Jn. 13:22) really means they were at a loss to know. Clearly they had absolutely no suspicion that it was Judas. And when Judas is told &quot;What you are doing, do quickly&quot; and Judas exits (Jn. 13:27-29), they still assume that he must have been sent out to minister to the poor suggesting there were beggars around the feast, again hinting that the last supper was not held behind closed doors. This again speaks to us who replicate the last supper week by week. Some will indeed betray their Lord, but we have absolutely no idea who they are.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><i>To be sorrowful- </i>It is commendable that their dominant emotion was of sorrow rather than anger. We perhaps would have expected anger more than sorrow. But their sorrow is a reflection of the degree of their love for the Lord, and their sorrow for the person who would face the awful consequences of doing so.</p><p><i>And to say to him one by one: Is it I?</i>- Some texts read: &quot;And another said, Is it I?&rdquo;. It is easy to assume that this &ldquo;another&rdquo; was Judas. But it has been suggested that in spoken Aramaic, &ldquo;and another said...&rdquo; would be a device for saying &lsquo;And I, I said...&rsquo;. If Mark&rsquo;s Gospel is a verbatim account of Peter&rsquo;s preaching of the Gospel, this would be so appropriate. Peter would be saying: &lsquo;All the disciples couldn&rsquo;t imagine it was them who would betray Jesus; and I, yes I also asked if it was me who would betray Him. I was so sure I wouldn&rsquo;t&rsquo;. The record in Mark 14 then goes on to describe how Peter <i>did</i> effectively betray / deny the Lord.</p><p>The negative implies the answer 'No, you are not the one'. It was more than a question- it was a declaration of innocence. This is the basis for self-examination at the Lord's table; we should be able to do it and conclude that we are not the Lord&rsquo;s betrayer. Some who sit at that table will betray Him, and we are to realize the very real possibility of our own ultimate failure, the eternity of the future we may miss. Perhaps &quot;every one of them&quot; excludes Judas, because he apparently asked the question later, and replaces 'Lord' with &quot;Master&quot;Gk. 'rabbi' when he asks: &quot;Master 'rabbi', is it I?&quot; (Mt. 26:25). His usage of 'rabbi' to address the Lord may reflect how influenced he was by Judaism, and how he failed to appreciate the utter Lordship of Jesus. Judas maybe persuaded himself that this Jesus was just another itinerant rabbi, who Judaism would be better off without. Note that &quot;Is it I?&quot; is&nbsp;<i>eimi ego</i>, literally 'Am I?'. This is one of many examples of where&nbsp;<i>ego eimi</i>&nbsp;means simply 'I am', and contrary to Trinitarian claims the words do not mean that the speaker of them is claiming to be God.</p>