and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

 (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. 