"What are you thinking about ?" "Of many things," Iscariot would reply with a quiet smile.

And perceiving, apparently, what a bad impression his silence made upon the others, he began more frequently to shun the society of the disciples, and spent much time in solitary walks, or would betake himself to the flat roof and there sit still.

And more than once he startled Thomas, who has unexpectedly stumbled in the darkness against a grey heap, out of which the hands and feet of Judas suddenly started, and his jeering voice was heard.
But one day, in a specially brusque and strange manner, Judas recalled his former character.

This happened on the occasion of the quarrel for the first place in the kingdom of heaven.

Peter and John were disputing together, hotly contending each for his own place nearest to Jesus.