"Do you also want to leave?"
Why would Jesus even ask the twelve a question like that?! He should have been positive, something like "Let the rest leave - I know I can count on you guys."
The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once observed that "frantic orthodoxy" is usually rooted, not in faith, but in doubt. It's when you're not sure of something that you try to act doubly sure.
You need to have the courage to let Jesus ask you the same question: "Do you also want to leave?"
No fair fudging by saying something like, "Lord, I accept you, but I no longer want to be part of this group of disciples. So, I'll just keep it personal, between me and you."
No good. At the Last Supper, Jesus said, "Do this in memory of me." And the "this" was a meal celebrated with a group, not one person's private meal with the Lord.
You too must face the question Jesus put to his disciples, "Do you also want to leave?"
And then you and Jesus can have a good talk.
- Little White Book, Diocese of Saginaw