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Rh to betray Him? Methinks that even Satan himself would not act thus."

"Nay, Satan doth make others to sin for him," answered Lazarus; "but 't is greed with Judas, the love of money that is the curse of all our nation; that doth even overwhelm the world. Surely the wrath of Caiaphas is not that the Master doth call Himself the Son of God, but that the tables of the money-changers and of the sellers of doves were overturned. The spaces, too, in the Temple court, 't is well known that a Pharisee doth give a high price to Caiaphas to have the right to sell there."

"But to sell the Lord for thirty pieces of silver! the price of the meanest slave!"

"Dost not mind the prophet Zechariah, how he saith, 'So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver'?"

"But the Lord, the Lord! " said Martha, while tears rose to her eyes.

At that moment Mary entered the room. "The Lord hath need of Peter and John, to send them to Jerusalem."

"Still will He sup with them at Jerusalem?" asked Lazarus, as he went to do as he had been bid.

Then the Nazarene gave this order to the disciples: "Go ye into the city, and there shall meet ye a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him. And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples? And he will show you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us."