It seemed to him that there was not only that vein of poetic imagination--without which one cannot be a great preacher--but a certain individual boldness of approach, monstrous in its naive sentimentality, to be sure, but indicating a talent that promised to mature splendidly.
"Now Jesus told his disciples," it ran, "that he must be crucified before he could take his seat on the right hand of God and send to hell those who had rejected him.

He told them that one of them would have to betray him, because it must be like the Father had said.

It says at the last supper Jesus said, 'The Son of Man goeth as it is written of him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed; it had been good for that man if he had not been born.' "Now it says that Satan entered into Judas, but it looks to me more like the angel of the Lord might have entered into him, he being a good man to start with, or our Lord would not have chosen him to be a disciple.

Judas knew for sure, after the Lord said this, that one of the disciples had got to betray the Saviour and go to hell, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.

Well, Judas loved all the disciples very much, so he thought he would be the one and save one of the others.