Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?' — this is Judas the son of James (or perhaps Jude), one of the twelve, distinct from Judas Iscariot who has departed. His question probes the selectivity of Jesus' self-revelation: why will Jesus reveal himself to the disciples but not to the world? The question assumes that a genuine revelation to Jesus would be universal and incontrovertible; yet John insists that revelation requires receptivity, faith, love—precisely what the world, locked in its opposition to God, cannot offer.

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