Jesus Christ had often been warned that Judas Iscariot was a man of very evil repute, and that He ought to beware of him.

Some of the disciples, who had been in Judaea, knew him well, while others had heard much about him from various sources, and there was none who had a good word for him.

If good people in speaking of him blamed him, as covetous, cunning, and inclined to hypocrisy and lying, the bad, when asked concerning him, inveighed against him in the severest terms.
"He is always making mischief among us," they would say, and spit in contempt.

"He always has some thought which he keeps to himself.

He creeps into a house quietly, like a scorpion, but goes out again with an ostentatious noise.