now that i fell into your arms
my only love, give out to give in The Gospel according to St. John ! Here we have the disciples freaking out because that dirty-dog, Judas, betrayed Jesus. Only, it isn’t Judas’ betrayal that has the disciple’s all in a twitter. No, the disciples are riled up because after Judas defected, there were only eleven disciples. Apparently they feel they need to have twelve to fill all the chairs for their council meetings, or something like that. So they are all out of sorts about the fact that there are eleven of them instead of twelve… In fact, you get the sense that if someone had asked them why they felt they needed to have twelve; the disciples would just stare back blankly and reply, “this one goes to twelve…” So to solve their “conundrum,” the disciples get the best candidate to fill that vacant spot. Only it turns out there are two potential nominees, Justus and Matthias. Rather than being elated by the fact that there are more than enough capable peop...