“ Notwithstanding all this Judas could not forget his covetousness, for when Mary Magdalen brought a box of costly ointment, to annoint our dear Lord's feet, at the house of Simon the Leper, Judas was offended thereat, because the value thereof was not put into his bag. But our Lord knowing his covetous and wicked heart, sharply rebuked him; at which he was so enraged, that he in revenge premeditated, and put into execution, the worst action of all his life, and going to the chief priests and elders, he said unto them, what will you give me, and I will betray him they call Jesus into your hands? ”

“ The magician replied, I am no interpreter of dreams, neither do I justly know the signification of marks, & the whole of your story appears as strange to me, as it can be amazing to you; but if you can tell me when the child was born, I will calculate its nativity, and see what it portends. ”

“ It is to be observed, that the Scripture makes mention of three Judases; the first in Judas Maccabeus, the second Judas the son of Joseph, the reputed father of our Lord; and third, Judas Iscariot, the son of a tanner, living in repute at Joppa, a sea-port town near Jerusalem. This Judas who betrayed our Lord, was his mother's first child, who dreamed that the child in her womb would prove both a thief and a murderer, and bring her and her generation to shame & disgrace: which so terrified her, that she was like to go distracted ”