Not a soul was to be seen there, every one had gone to the place of execution.

Judas was thrown aside, even by the gaping crowd, abandoned as a traitor.
Frightful, inconceivable, was the thing he had done! Alas! why had He not revealed Himself?
He stood patiently, gentle as a lamb before the judges, and bore the cross as no one had ever done before.

Could that be it after all?
Not to strive against one's enemies, to suffer one's fate as the will of God, to lay down one's life for the tidings of the Father--was that glory the mission of the Messiah?
"And I?
I expected something else of Him.

And I made a mistake, greater than all the mistakes of all the fools put together.

And now I am thrust out of the fellowship of righteous men, and thrust out of the fellowship of sinners.