Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

 (ii) There was deterioration. It is in Judas above all that we see this. Jesus must have seen in him a man whom he could use for his purposes. But Judas, who might have become the hero, became the villain; he who might have become a saint became a name of shame. 