e Lord of the
harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." And then
he sent the twelve forth. As a matter of fact the Scriptures
concerning Judas are not so very full, but there is a good outline, and
if one but takes the points presented and allows his imagination to
work in the least, there is a story which is thrilling in its awfulness.

The four Evangelists tell us of his call, and these are practically
identical in their statement except concerning his names. Matthew and
Mark call him the Betrayer; Luke speaks of him as a Traitor, while John
calls him a Devil. The next thing we learn concerning him is his
rebuke of the woman who came to render her service to Jesus as a proof
of her affection. In John the twelfth chapter, the fourth to the sixth
verse, we read, "Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot,
Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold
for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that
he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and
bare what was put therein."

Next we hear of him bargaining with the enemies of Jesus for his
betrayal. The account is very full in Matthew, the twenty-sixth
chapter the fourteenth to the sixteenth verse. "Then one of the twelve
called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them,
What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they
covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he
sought opportunity to betray him."

Then we are told of his delivering Jesus into the hands of his enemies,
in Matthew, the twenty-sixth chapter, the forty-seventh to the
forty-ninth verses: "And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the
twelve, came, and with him a great multitude, with swords and staves,
from the chief priests and elders of the people. Now he that betrayed
him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he:
hold him fast. And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master;
and kissed him." And then finally comes his dreadful end, the account
of his remorse in Matthew, the twenty-seventh chapter, the third and
the fourth verses. "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw
that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty
pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned
in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is
that to us? see th