i46 "WOE UNTO THAT MAN."

 Judas had made the plan, and told the soldiers, "The
one I kiss, the same is He; hold Him fast." They did
hold him fast; they came around him with frowns and
looks of hate, and with weapons in their strong arms.
 The last act of Christ's hands before they were bound,
was one of mercy. As the crowd came roughly to him,
Peter took a sword and cut off the ear of one of the ser-
vants of the high priest. Jesus said to him, Put up thy
sword;" then he reached out his hand and touched the
man's ear and healed him. Even so he cared for his ene-
mies, just as they were binding his arms as a prisoner.
Jesus looked at them and said, "Are ye come out as
against a thief, with swords and staves to take me ?" He
let them bind him and lead him away.
 Wretched Judas! Could that money give him.any
comfort? The next day he went to the temple saying, I
have sinned, in that I have shed innocent blood." The
priests did not care: they only said, "What is that to us?"
Then Judas flung down before them the thirty pieces of
silver, and went out and hung himself.
 With that money the Jews bought a field to bury
strangers in, and always called the place The Field of
Blood."