{"id":5787,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/judas\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:08","slug":"judas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/judas\/","title":{"rendered":"Judas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd as to Judas Iscariot, my reason is different.  I would fain see the face of him who, having dipped his hand in the same dish with the Son of Man, could afterwards betray Him.  I have no conception of such a thing; nor have I ever seen any picture, not even Leonardo\u2019s very fine one, that gave me the least idea of it.\u201d  So, according to William Hazlitt in his essay \u201cPersons One Would Wish to Have Seen,\u201d spake Charles Lamb.  And so say we all.  Could we see his face, we might get some idea of the man, and some understanding of his crime.  Judas is the man of mystery among the Twelve.   &#8212; McCartney<\/p>\n<p>Judas\u2019 heart, not his face, reflected his treachery, and He Whom Judas\u2019 betrayed saw that reflection.   &#8212; D. V. M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd as to Judas Iscariot, my reason is different. I would fain see the face of him who, having dipped his hand in the same dish with the Son of Man, could afterwards betray Him. I have no conception of such a thing; nor have I ever seen any picture, not even Leonardo\u2019s very fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[649,175],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}