“But if they should dare! What then?”
John replied disdainfully—
“One would think, Judas, that you were the only one who loved Jesus!”
And eagerly seizing hold of these words, and not in the least offended, Judas began to question impatiently and hotly, with stern insistency:
“But you love Him, don’t you?”
And there was not one of the believers who came to Jesus whom he did not ask more than once: “Do you love Him? Dearly love Him?”
And all answered that they loved Him.
He used often to converse with Thomas, and holding up his dry, hooked forefinger, with its long, dirty nail, in warning, would mysteriously say:
“Look here, Thomas, the terrible hour is drawing near. Are you prepared for it? Why did you not take the sword I brought you?”
Thomas would reply with deliberation: