Both Luke and John say that Judas was possessed by the Devil and imply that this was a reason for his behaviour. Luke seems to suggest that Judas' actions may have been entirely the result of this possession; that he was, in effect, carrying out Satan's wishes:. John, on the other hand, suggests that Judas was a bad man before Satan entered him to inspire the final betrayal:. For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.
Yet one of you is a devil. Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, 'Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me.
One of his disciples-the one whom Jesus loved-was reclining next to him; Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him, 'Lord, who is it?
Jesus answered, 'It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish. After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
You might think that if Satan had taken over Judas, then he is not to blame for his actions; Jesus did not think that way:. The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born. I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But it is to fulfil the scripture, 'The one who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.
While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. This doesn't provide a motive for Judas' action, and although some say that it explains why Judas had to do what he did, others argue that Judas, like all human beings, had free will, and could have chosen not to do it.
Another theory says that if Judas had not betrayed Jesus the Crucifixion would not have taken place, there would have been no Resurrection and the founding events of Christianity would not have occurred.
This isn't necessarily true: all Judas does is enable the authorities to find Jesus at a particular time and place - and given Jesus' very public actions during the preceding days the authorities should have had little difficulty in apprehending him without the help of Judas. Nor does it serve as a motive for Judas unless he was aware of what needed to happen to Jesus for the plan of salvation to be fulfilled, and there is no clear statement of this in the gospels.
Some writers argue that Judas had a strong political motive, and had seen Jesus as the Messiah who would liberate the Jews from being ruled by the Romans. But although Jesus had had several opportunities to lead a populist direct action movement, he had not taken them up. It's possible that Judas intended to force Jesus' hand by revealing him to the authorities so that Jesus would have to declare himself to be the political leader of the Jews and use the popular support demonstrated during his triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the basis of an earthly liberation movement.
An alternative view is that Judas was so disappointed that Jesus had not declared himself the Messiah and taken action to lead the Jews, that he decided to betray him as an act of revenge for what he saw as Jesus' political betrayal of his more Nationalist followers.
This theory is not directly supported in the gospels. I think we must ask another question: 'Did Judas feel betrayed by Jesus? Remember that Jesus' incarnation, as the long awaited Messiah, was very different from what the Jews expected and felt was promised in their scriptures.
When you think of the crowds shouting, 'Crucify him,' you realize that they felt betrayed by Jesus as well. Remember St. Paul himself said that 'we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews Jesus had become a stumbling block for Judas.
Judas felt betrayed by Jesus, before he betrayed Jesus in turn. One scholar has argued that Judas never intended to betray Jesus. Professor William Klassen says that the idea of betrayal is based on a mistranslation and that Judas intended not to 'betray' Jesus, but to 'hand over' Jesus to the authorities. And this can be developed to suggest that Judas intended to bring Jesus and the authorities together in order to resolve their differences.
If Judas didn't intend a betrayal then that would explain his suicide when he became aware of the catastrophic consequence of his action. A manuscript called the Gospel of Judas, written in the 2nd century was translated from a 5th century copy in the first decade of the 21st century, although its existence had long been rumoured.
Early comments on the manuscript suggested that it portrayed Judas in largely positive, even heroic, terms. The manuscript was said to show that Jesus asked Judas to betray him, so that Jesus could be freed from his physical body and the plan of salvation could be fulfilled. He watched as Christ healed the sick, raised the dead and cast out demons.
In terms of experience with Jesus, whatever you can say about Peter, James and John, you can say about Judas. On top of all this, he handled the money, which is most of the time the most trusted one in the bunch. No one suspected that Judas would betray Jesus, which tells me he was a believer. His life was changed. He knew Jesus personally. In a dark moment of his life, he made a mistake.
A big one. He sold Jesus out for 30 silver coins or so. The moment he knew what he had done, he felt remorse, and he killed himself.
Does this codex reveal why Judas betrayed Jesus? I am not here to debate theology. The facts are the facts. I don't think Judas was "The Mole," like the reality show character who's there to sabotage the game from the beginning.
I think he made a mistake and now has gone down as committing the biggest sin of all time. Judas heard every message, saw every miracle, and still screwed up. Recently, I asked on my Facebook page: "Is Judas in heaven or hell? The first response was:. Judas is in hell today. He has been there for 2, years and he will be there forever.
There is a button on Facebook that I have started to love. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus informed his disciples during the Last Supper that one of them will betray him. Judas then went on his own to the priests of the Temple, the religious authorities at the time, and offered to betray Jesus in exchange for money—30 pieces of silver, as specified in the Gospel of Matthew.
Others have suggested a more political motive for his traitorous act. According to this theory, Judas might have become disillusioned when Jesus showed little interest in fomenting a rebellion against the Romans and reestablishing an independent kingdom of Israel. The Bible offers differing accounts of Judas's death. The Gospel of Matthew describes him hanging himself after realizing the depths of his betrayal.
The Book of Acts, on the other hand, describes his death more like a spontaneous combustion. The historical tendency to identify Judas with anti-Semitic stereotypes led, after the horrors of the Holocaust, to a reconsideration of this key Biblical figure, and something of a rehabilitation of his image.
Professor William Klassen, a Canadian biblical scholar, argued in a biography of Judas that many of the details of his treachery were invented or exaggerated by early Christian church leaders, especially as the church began to move away from Judaism. First alluded to in writing by the second-century cleric Irenaeus, the Gospel of Judas is one of many ancient texts discovered in recent decades that have been linked to the Gnostics, a mostly Christian group who were denounced as heretics by early church leaders for their unorthodox spiritual beliefs.
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