just days before he will die on the cross jesus takes his followers into jerusalem for the jewish pass over. on the night that he will betray him he invites his disciples to share a last supper. jesus has to have the last supper in secret because he can t let the authorities know where he is going to be because it s very important that he finish his last teaching and his last supper before he is seized and arrested finally. mary the mother of jesus they re not there at the last supper but the reason is because jesus knows he is about to be betrayed and this arresting could be very violent.
particular i m very excited to see and that is 63, 64. and yeah. there s two moments in the gospel that say something different about the relationship. explicit by that jesus loved mary more than the other disciples. why do you love her more than all of us? why do i not love you as i do her? and there s another moment where he kisses her. he used to kiss her and then there s this hole and so we lost
we have to assume that they re friends and that they have this close relationship. he s special. he has a key place. and yet something s going to happen in judas that s going to lead him to fall away from jesus and to lose faith in jesus and ultimately to betray jesus. the new testament gospels tell of a critical moment here two miles outside jerusalem. the village of bethany is named in the gospels as the place where jesus stayed during the last week of his life. the gospel of john places the scene in the house of lazarus, the man jesus raised from the dead. just a few days before his crucifixion, a woman came to jesus and anointed his feet with
before these missing pieces resurfaced, scholars assumed that it is judas who enters the cloud. whoever eers 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. but judas himself isn t the person that the author in the text is most interested in. regardless of whether judas was a good or bad character in this text, what most scholars would agree is that the gospel of judas is not really about the figure of judas. the disciples are the ones being criticized by the author. the real shock reveal of the gospel of judas is that none of the disciples are good. that s what really probably should have been the headline. none of the disciples are that
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