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Not Iscariot (ouch ho Iskariōtēs). Judas Iscariot had gone (Joh 13:30), but John is anxious to make it clear that this Judas (common name, two apostles also named James) was not the infamous traitor. He is also called Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus (Mar 3:17; Mat 10:3) and the brother (or son) of James (Luk 6:16; Act 1:13). This is the fourth interruption of the talk of Jesus (by Peter, Joh 13:36; by Thomas, Joh 14:5; by Philip, Joh 14:8; by Judas, Joh 14:22).
And not to the world (kai ouchi tōi kosmōi). Judas caught at the word emphanizō in Joh 14:21 as perhaps a Messianic theophany visible to all the world as at the judgment (Joh 5:27.). He seems to suspect a change of plan on the part of Jesus (ti gegonen hoti = how has it happened that).