Mark 14:21

woe to that man The intimation just given was uttered privately for the ear of St John alone, and through him was possibly made known to St Peter; but the incident was of so ordinary a character, that it would fail to attract any notice whatever, and could only be a sign to the Apostle of Love. Then aloud, as we may believe, the Holy One uttered His final warning to the Traitor, and pronounced words of immeasurable woe on him by whom He was about to be betrayed, "It were good for that man if he had never been born." But the last appeal had no effect upon him. "Rabbi, is it I?" he inquired, steeling himself to utter the shameless question. "Thou hast said," replied the Saviour, in words probably heard only by those close by, and gave him "the sop," and Satan entered into him, as St John tells us (Mark 13:27) with awful impressiveness. "That thou doest, do quickly," the Saviour continued; and the traitor arose and went forth, and it was night(John 13:27-30), but the night was not darker than the darkness of his soul.