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Were there more than one of Jesus’ disciples concerned in his betrayal?

John: There were. “For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were [of his disciples] that believed not, and who should betray him” ([vi, 64]).

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When the Jewish council met to plan the arrest of Jesus, to what conclusion did they come?

Matthew and Mark: Not to arrest him on the feast day ([Matt. xxvi, 3–5]; [Mark xiv, 1, 2]).

Yet this was the very day on which Matthew and Mark declare that he was arrested.