Section 119, Judas' Betrayal and Peter's Denial Foretold

Section 119
JUDAS' BETRAYAL AND PETER'S DENIAL FORETOLD
(Jerusalem. Evening before the crucifixion.)
MATT. 26:21-25, 31-35
MARK 14:18-21, 27-31
LUKE 22:21-23, 31-38
JOHN 13:21-38

Summary:  These are dark events that are very familiar to me.  This is a piece of scripture that I've heard in mass and CCD (Catholic Sunday School) as a child and read as an adult time over time.  Judas betrays Jesus, and Jesus shows knowledge of this.  Also, his most ardent friend, Peter, vows his faithfulness only to be told that he will soon deny him too.

I'm having a hard time connecting to this passage---perhaps for the familiarity, perhaps because it's a straightforwardly depressing narrative.

"And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Is it I, Rabbi? He saith unto him, Thou hast said.-Matthew 26:25

"It seems strange that the disciples showed no resentment toward Judas, and made no effort to interfere with this course, but their conduct is plain if we regard them as viewing the predictions of Jesus as referring to the indefinite future, and not the immediate present."-Fourfold

"And after the sop, then entered Satan into him." Matt 26:27

There's an interesting principle at work here--exposing darkness doesn't fix it when it seems like it should:

"Exposure only hardened Judas and made him resign himself more fully to the influence of the devil."-Fourfold

"Jesus answereth, Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? v 38
"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not." v 31-32

"The language here suggests a repetition, in some degree, of Satan's conduct in the case of Job. See Job 1; 2. Jesus, having insight into what was going on in the spirit world, made supplication that Peter might be enabled to endure the trial" -Fourfold