you have the last supper. you have the garden of gethsemane. and it s like an endless night. while the disciples sleep, jesus spends the night in prayer. he s so anguished, so full of agony that he s sweating blood. the one i kiss will be the man. arrest him and lead him away. rabbi. judas walks up to jesus and does the most loving thing on the outside, and it was the most hateful thing on the inside.
he kisses him. jesus of nazareth. no! judas is responsible for the ultimate act of wickedness, betraying an innocent jesus. from that moment, the name judas is synonymous with traitor. but nearly 2 millennia later, a new version of this shameful story emerges, the lost gospel of judas. it casts a different light on
was a notorious figure. he was an attention-getter in antiquity as he is today. anyone who would choose to write a gospel of judas was certainly making a conscious decision to pick a figure whom wasn t accepted by the orthodox church. the judas character in the gospel of judas is not a great deal different from judas as we see him on the pages of the new testament. judas has always been a complicated character. ambiguity around judas and the fascination has always been there. there s no way that the gospel writers would have made up a character in jesus inner circle who would have betrayed jesus. he s not just kind of a mythical person. judas obviously is someone who is going through a lot of conflict.
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 cosmology, his own fate and the role that 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 history, judas iscariot. this is your home. the best home to be in is your own. home instead offers personalized in-home services for your loved ones. home instead senior care. to us, it s personal. the first fda-approved hommedication of its kind, tremfya® can help adults with moderate to severe
interest. in 2006, nearly 30 years after its discovery, the gospel of judas is finally revealed to the world. this is a new gospel. it tells a new story of the last days of jesus christ. it s a dialogue between jesus and judas. it is the only known copy of a text originally written in the 2nd century a.d. the actual author of the gospel of judas remains unknown. it s not the gospel according to judas. so all the other gospels that we have are always according to one disciple or the other, but this is not necessarily judas view. this is a text that s about judas. the gospel uses the familiar scene of the last supper to