judas escariot, the man who betrays jesus. the question is why? does judas know what he s doing? does judas resent jesus or is he just disillusioned or is he just confused? we don t know what made judas do what he did. i can imagine a lot of different motives. in the gospel of matthew judas betrays jesus for 30 pieces of silver. for me green doesn t work as a motive because judas spent the last one to three years traipsing around galilee presumably for mow money so why is this person all of a sudden greedy?
understand jesus and only judas has the courage to stand up and speak to him. i know who you are. and once you have come, and i am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you. judas is singled out as the one disciple with whom jesus feels he can speak openly. judas understands. he ll take judas aside and explain to him cosmoology, his own fate and the role judas is going to play in human history. this lost gospel appears to give a new explanation of the betrayal of jesus, and exonerate the man reviled throughout histo history, judas iscariot.
the betrayal of jesus is one of the most infamous crimes in history. the discovery of the lost gospel of judas put judas iscariot on trial once again. now new evidence in the form of missing fragments of the text has come to light. the most important fragment for scholars is the fragment on the final page which is thought to resolve the question of who enters the cloud at the end of the text. before these missing pieces resurfaced, scholars assumed that it is judas who enters the cloud. whoever enters the cloud is actually the one who ascends to the highest heaven. this final fragment clarifies that it is, in fact, jesus and not judas who enters the cloud. if judas himself isn t the