And It was Night

John slips in this comment at the end of John 13.30 so that we almost miss it. He is certainly not just making a reference to the time of day here. There is something going on far deeper than that. Darkness is a time of evil because evil hates the light and Christ is the light of the world. When else to betray Christ except at night?

Adam Clarke puts it most succinctly and well: Under the conduct of the prince of darkness, and in the time of darkness, he did this work of darkness.