An Hisiorical Account ofJesus 39Said Judas: 'Thirty pieces of gold.'
Then straightway the high priest counted unto him
the money, and sent a Pharisee to the governor to fetch
soldiers, and to Herod, and they gave a legion of them,
because they feared the people; wherefore they. took
their arms, and with torches and lanterns upon staves
went out of Jerusalem.
When the soldiers with Judas drew near to the place
where Jesus was, Jesus heard the approach of many peo
ple, wherefote in fear he withdrew into the house. And
the eleven were sleeping.
Then GOO, seeing the danger of his servant, corn
manded(the angels) Gabriel, Michael, Rafael and Uriel,
His ministers, to take Jesus out of the world.
The holy angels carne and took Jesus out by the win
dow that looks toward the South. They bare him and
placed him in the third heaven in the company of an
gels blessing God for evermore.
Judas entered impetuously before all into the charnber
from where Jesus had been taken up. And the disciples
were sleeping. Whereupon the wonderful God acted
wonderfully, insomuch that Judas was so changed in
speech and in face to be like Jesus that we believed hirn
to be Jesus. And he, having awakened us, was seeking
where the Master was. Whereupon we marvelled, and
answered: 'You, lord, are our master; have you now for
gotten us?'
And he, smiling, said: 'Now are you foolish, that
know not me to be Judas Iscariot!'
And as he was saying this the soldiery entered, and
laid their hands upon Judas, because he was in every
way like to Jesus.
Wehaving heard Judas' saying, and seeing the mul
titude of soldiers, fled as beside ourselves.
And John, who was wrapped in a linen cloth, awoke
and fled, and when a soldier seized him by the linen
dothhe left the linen cloth and flednaked. For God heard
the prayer of Jesus, and saved the eleven from evil.