After he said these things, Jesus was deeply disturbed and testified, “I assure you, one of you will betray me.” His disciples looked at each other, confused about which of them he was talking about. One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was at Jesus’ side. Simon Peter nodded at him to get him to ask Jesus who he was talking about. Leaning back toward Jesus, this disciple asked, “Lord, who is it?” Jesus answered, “It’s the one to whom I will give this piece of bread once I have dipped into the bowl.”Then he dipped the piece of bread and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son. After Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” No one sitting at the table understood why Jesus said this to him. Some thought that, since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus told him, “Go, buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor. So when Judas took the bread, he left immediately. And it was night. When Judas was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Human One has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify the Human One in himself and will glorify him immediately. (John 13:21-32, CEB)
Judas went from this meal with his teacher and friends to go and hand Jesus over to the religious leadership. He did what he did quickly and met Jesus and the disciples with the temple guards in the garden.
Judas fulfilled a need in the plan and is seen as a bad person for doing what needed to be done for Jesus to be arrested.
If Judas had not handed Jesus over, how would all of this have played out?
Judas killed himself because he was distraught by what had happened. Maybe if he had waited to see Jesus rise from the grave, things would have been different?
How would Judas have been accepted by the others after Jesus rose from the dead?
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