After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, 'One of you will betray me' — Jesus' disturbance (etaraxthe) is not fear but the wound of love facing rejection, the sorrow of one who has loved fully and is about to be handed over to death. This emotional transparency—showing his anguish rather than mastering it—makes Jesus fully human in his suffering. The announcement of betrayal is not made in anger but in grief; the focus is not on punishment but on the fact of separation imminent. This is a moment of profound loneliness in the midst of community, isolation in the presence of the eleven.

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