Ian McManus

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Jesus warns his followers of his imminent arrest, using the same phrase for the soldiers that he used for the one who would be ‘cast out’ because of his death: ‘the ruler of the world is coming,’ he said (14:30). It makes no sense, in my view, to separate this from the satanic takeover of Judas in the previous chapter (13:2, 30) or from the arrival of the soldiers in the garden (18:3),
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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