“[Just] as the arrival of Jesus awakened the enmity of Herod and the emergence of the Son of God on the public scene stirred the opposition of demons and humans, so the climactic expression of coinherence, the laying bare of who Jesus is, brings forth the dark powers. Immediately after the cup has been shared, Jesus says, ‘But see, the one who betrays me is with me, and his hand is on the table’ (Luke 22:21). Earlier, Luke told us that ‘Satan [had] entered into Judas called the Iscariot, who was one of the twelve’ (Luke 22:3), and thus we see the accusing and scattering power that had dogged Jesus from the outset of his work was still operative, even (we might say especially) here where the anti-Satanic act of coinherence was most vividly on display. How telling the detail of the betrayer’s ‘hand on the table,’ soiling the beauty and interrupting the flow of grace at that sacred spot...