Now, after this, was Jesus sad,
And trouble did display;
For one of them who sat with Him
He said should Him betray.
And then, all being sorrowful,
Said : "Is it I?" in turn.
But He said : "Twere good for that man
If he had ne'er been born."
Now the disciple Jesus loved,
Who next His bosom lay,
At sign from Peter asked : "Who, Lord,
Would vilely Thee betray?"
Jesus said : "When I did the sop
It shall be that man's lot."
And when He dipped He gave it to
Judas Iscariot.
Yet upon Judas' callous heart
No softening touch it gave :
But Satan entered into him,
To harden and enslave.
Jesus said : "What thou do'st, do now."
None knew what this did mean ;
But Judas rose and left the room,
And sought a different scene.
