<p>14:20<i> And he said to them: It is one of the twelve. He that dipped in the dish at the same time with me</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>He lamented that His betrayer was one who had dipped in the dish with Him at the last supper. There was no way that this was meant to be an indication to the disciples that Judas was the betrayer- for they all ate the supper and dipped in the same dish. Hence His point was surely to foreground the awful fact that <i>it was a brother who had broken bread with Him</i> who would now betray Him. Ps. 41:9 laments that it was one who &quot;ate of my bread&quot; who betrayed Him. This is why the challenge &quot;Lord, is it I?&quot; echoes down to every communion service.</p>