At the Last Supper, Jesus doesn’t look like a victim of betrayal—He looks like a Conductor calling the next movement of redemption. We talk about the cross like it was a chain of unfortunate events. Bad politics. Religious jealousy. A corrupt trial. A cowardly governor. A brutal empire. And sure — all of that is true. But if you read the Gospel of John with your eyes open, you start realizing something unsettling and beautiful. Jesus wasn’t being pulled toward the cross. He w