So the one whom Jesus loved, leaning back against Jesus, asked him, 'Lord, who is it?' — the Beloved leans back more intimately, his body in contact with Jesus', and asks in singular directness. His closeness permits an intimacy of questioning that Peter cannot assume; he asks not from external curiosity but from the vulnerability of one beloved, seeking to know the shadow that falls across the table. The question is whispered into the darkness of unknowing.

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