Why do you steal ?" "There is no such thing as property." "No, but to-morrow they will ask the soldiers: 'Where are your swords ?' And when they cannot find them they will be punished though innocent." The consequence was, that after the death of Jesus the disciples recalled these conversations of Judas, and determined that he had wished to destroy them, together with the Master, by inveigling them into an unequal and murderous conflict.

And once again they cursed the hated name of Judas Iscariot the Traitor.
But the angry Judas, after each conversation, would go to the women and weep.

They heard him gladly.

The tender womanly element, that there was in his love for Jesus, drew him near to them, and made him simple, comprehensible, and even handsome in their eyes, although, as before, a certain amount of disdain was perceptible in his attitude towards them.
"Are they men ?" he would bitterly complain of the disciples, fixing his blind, motionless eye confidingly on Mary Magdalene.

"They are not men.
They have not an oboles' worth of blood in their veins!" "But then you are always speaking ill of others," Mary objected.
"Have I ever ?" said Judas in surprise.