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?