Why did it take five hundred years to notice this? Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper," contains a five-century old mystery that only now is coming to light. LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - .
for no money. so why is this person all of a sudden greedy? so what else would drive judas to double-cross jesus? i am with jesus of nazareth and can bring him to you. some experts think that judas was a zealot. a zealot is a technical term for a group of revolutionaries who are really strongly opposed to roman occupation. if judas was one of these revolutionaries, maybe he got frustrated jesus wasn t taking enough action, being public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. maybe he handed over jesus in the hope that creating a confrontation between jesus and the romans would be the spark that would cause jesus to begin the events that would topple the roman empire. these political intrigues form the backdrop to one of the most celebrated scenes of jesus life: the last supper. this place is called the
cenaculum. it comes from the latin word cena, for dinner, and this is the traditional site where the last supper took place. when jesus and his disciples meet for the last supper, the tension is really building up. through the week that they ve been in jerusalem, there have been increasing conflicts with authorities. something big was about to happen. i think there s a real sense of foreboding at the last supper the way that it s portrayed in the gospels. there s that moment at the meal, this intimacy.