John 18

I wonder if John does not mention the last supper because for him it was too sacred an experience. He was the one who rested his head on the Savior's chest and he seems to have had a deeper love for the Savior. What's different in John's account is that when Judas brings the officers and other men from the Pharisees and chief priests, the Savior asks them who they are seeking and when the Savior says "I am he," they all fall to the ground in fear and Jesus has to tell them to go ahead and do what they must do. We also learn that Malchus is the soldier's name who Peter cuts off his ear with his sword. But John doesn't mention that the Savior heals Malchus. I think the reason John mentions his name is because Malchus becomes a member of the church and comes to know John. There's nothing in the scriptures to support that. But it's a good possibility.

John also mentions that he (at least Bible scholars agree that it was him) followed the Savior with Peter. When the Savior was taken inside to Annas, the high priest and father in-law of Caiaphus, Peter must remain outside but John is allowed inside because Annas knows him. This is evidently how we know what happened and what was said once the Savior is inside.

Annas wants to trap the Savior in blaspheme by getting him to state some false doctrine, but the Savior says he always taught in the open for anyone to hear and Annas can ask anyone what he taught and find out if he taught anything that was evil. Obviously Annas doesn't know how to handle him so he sends him to Caiaphus who is equally frustrated and Caiaphus seends him to Pilate.

When Jesus is before Pilate, he tells him that he came into the world to bear witness unto the truth. Pilate then rhetorically asks, "What is truth?" That is the great excuse of the world, that you can't know the truth because there is no absolute truth. It differs for each person. There can't be a true church, because people are too different and what is true for one person isn't going to be true for the next. The Savior teaches that the truth is in him. That people, through him, can know what is true and what isn't. A church that has revelation will have the truth. At the beginning of Acts after the Savior's death, it states that the Savior continued to direct his church by revelation through the apostles. That is the way he continues to reveal truth. So if you want the truth, you have to find the church that has revelation. How fortunate we are to belong to that church.