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When the Jews came to arrest Jesus what did the disciples do?
Matthew: “Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled” ([xxvi, 56]).
Mark: “And they all forsook him, and fled” ([xiv, 50]).
Justin says: “All his friends [the Apostles] stood aloof from him, having denied him” (Apology i, 50).
One scarcely knows which to detest the more, the treachery of Judas in betraying his Master, or the imbecility and cowardice of the other apostles who took no measures to prevent it and who forsook him in the hour of danger.