“He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though he was one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.) — the parenthetical identifies the traitor as Judas Iscariot, establishing that the Gospel was aware of the betrayal from the outset. His place among the Twelve makes the betrayal a tragedy of proximity and privilege.
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