So, having received the piece of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night — the narrative returns to its obsession with light and darkness; Judas departs into literal night, which becomes the perfect emblem of his spiritual state and his trajectory toward the dark work of betrayal. The adverb "immediately" (euthys) marks the swift transition from light into darkness, from Jesus' presence into satanic dominion. Night in John's Gospel is never merely temporal but spiritual: it is the time of darkness, of opposition to the light that Jesus is. Judas's exit is his exit from the light of Christ into the darkness of the world's rebellion.

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