Emphasis Preaching Journal

The story is told of an artist who set himself to paint the Last Supper. The project would take him many years to complete. Beginning with the figure of Christ, he found a man with a face of such purity that he chose him for the model. One by one, he painted all the disciples around the Table. All, that is, except Judas. He had looked far and wide but never seemed to be able to find one whose face reflected the tragedy of Judas. He searched in the lowest haunts of society and at last found a man so depraved that he took him for a model.