...into the deepest guilt, and brought him at length to destruction. Judas said this, St. John remarks, " not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was therein." He hoped, therefore, that the larger the sum placed in his hands, the more of it he might...

...might have been sold and given to the poor; but three of the evangelists assert, that he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bear what was put therein. John xii. 4. This disposition, accompanied with an idea that Christ was...

...prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment, Luke xxiii. 56. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this, John xii. 7. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought...

...the ointment had not been sold, and the money given to the poor ; not, adds the sacred historian, " that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." These brief events in this wicked man's life prepare us for the dreadful deed which blackened his closing...

...been sold for three hundred pence (it may be about forty or fifty pound), and given to the poor, ' But this he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag ;' out of which he could have made a good prey unto himself; John xii. 6. And it may 'be observed,...

...pence, and given to the poor ?" Upon which the evangelical historian remarks, that " he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was...thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein." The second is the memorable instance of delivering up Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. It is plain,...

...Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, aim given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared...the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bng, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus ; Let her alone. Against my burying has she kept...

...with the odour of the ointment. Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscarior, Simon's son, which should betray him ; Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? Then said Jesus : Let her alone ; against the day of my burying has she kept this. For the poor always...

...something extraordinary in the character of Judas from the beginning is clearly and repeatedly intimated. " This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag." John xii. 6. " There be some of you which believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were...

...a cold one, at such a season ; but Judas was neither ; and he said this, proceeds the historian, ' not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare off what was put therein.' Thus it appears, that the root of all this traitor's wickedness was avarice,...