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76 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1910
None of the disciples had noticed when it was that this ugly, foxy-haired Jew first appeared in the company of Christ: but he had for a long time haunted their path, joined in their conversations, performed little acts of service, bowing and smiling and currying favour.
“When a strong wind blows it raises the dust, and foolish people look at the dust and say: ‘Look at the wind!’ But it is only dust, my good Thomas, ass’s dung trodden underfoot. The dust meets a wall and lies down gently at its foot, but the wind flies farther and farther, my good Thomas.”
On that terrible day when the world’s act of injustice was consummated, and Jesus Christ was crucified at Golgotha between two thieves, on that day from the earliest morning Ben Tobit, a merchant of Jerusalem, had been suffering from an unendurable toothache.
When Eleazar left the grave, where he had spent three days and three nights in the mysterious power of death, and returned alive to his house, for a long time those ominous peculiarities in him, which afterwards caused his very name to be dreaded by his contemporaries, passed unnoticed.
"if any one in this world was ever deceived, it was Judas"
"You wish to buy Jesus for thirty pieces of silver? And you think that Jesus can be betrayed to you for thirty pieces of silver?"
"Judas was an habitual liar, but they became used to this, when they found that his lies were not followed by any evil conduct; nay, they added a special piquancy to his conversation and tales, and made life seem like a comic, and sometimes a tragic, tales."
"what is a lie, my clever Thomas? Would not the death of Jesus be the greatest lie of all?"
"Judas! Is it with a kiss you betray the Son of Man?"
"People always love their teacher, but better dead than alive."
"ye will soon be kissing the cross on which ye crucified Jesus! Yes, yes, Judas gives ye his word that ye will kiss the cross!"