A Sonnet for Judas’s Lie

Wednesday of Holy Week
Gospel: Matthew 26:14-25
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041625.cfm

“If I give you him, what will you give me?”
Judas Iscariot asked the high priest.
“Thirty pieces of silver in a sleeve.”
So he thought of when he’d expect it least.

"Where shall we all eat the Passover meal?”
The disciples asked and Jesus replied,
"In the city is a man with a deal,
Tell him the end’s near and may we reside.”

They reclined together with food and drink
Jesus spoke, “A betrayer’s in our midst.”
“Surely none of us,” they started to think. 
“Woe to the person who brings this plot twist.”

They ate dipped bread with one caught in a lie.
Judas asked, "Surely it’s not I, Rabbi?"