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HE time was now come for
Jesus to be betrayed and
put to death. His wicked
disciple Judas Iscariot, of
whom we have often read,

went secretly to the priests and

captains, the enemies of Jesus, and

asked, “ What will you give me if I

deliver Jesus unto you?” They

promised to give him thirty pieces
of silver; so Judas went away,
thinking how he could best betray
his kind master. See how sin grows
in the heart, when it is not re-

/ sisted and subdued! Judas had

long been a thief and a hypocrite ;

now his love of money and his de-
ceit led him to sell and betray

Jesus.

The passover was kept at this
time. That feast was typical of the
death of Christ, the Lamb of God ;
and Jesus wanted to eat of it with
His disciples once more, before He
fulfilled the type by suffering on the
cross. So He called two of His dis-
ciples, and said to them, “Go into
the city, and there you will meet a
man carrying a pitcher of water ;
follow him. And wherever he shall
go in, say to the good man of the
house, the master saith, “ Where is
the room where I shall eat the pass-
over with my disciples?” And he
will show you a large upper room,
furnished; there make ready.”

The disciples went, and found all
as Jesus had told them; and they
made ready the passover; and in

 

the evening, Jesus came to eat it
with the twelve. It was a very
mournful time. Jesus knew all that
was going to happen; and as he look-
ed round, and saw Judas, he felt very
sad; but the disciples did not know
at first why their dear master was
so sorrowful.

When the paschal feast was ended,
Jesus rose from the table, and put
off some of His garments, and took
a towel, and girded Himself. Then
He poured water into a basin, and
began to wash His disciples’ feet,
and to wipe ther: with the towel.
But when Jesus came to Peter,
Peter felt ashamed that his master
should wash the feet of such a poor
sinful man as he felt himself to be,
and he said, “Lord, thou shalt
never wash my feet.” But Jesus
answered, “If I wash thee not, thou
hast no part with me.” Jesus
meant that Peter’s sins must all be
washed away in his Saviour’s blood,
and his heart made clean by the
Holy Spirit, or Peter could never be
with Jesus in Heaven. Peter un-
derstood this directly, and he said,
“ Lord, wash not only my feet, but
also my hands, and my head.
Peter’s ‘sins were washed away, and
his heart was made clean; and the
other disciples were clean also, all |
but one. That one was Judas.
Jesus washed the feet of Judas, bul
he had not washed his soul; fot
Judas had never repented, neve?
asked Jesus to take away his sins