Thinking about Judas again
Thinking mostly about how he's written in the gospels and acts and apocryphal works. How his motivations have been studied for centuries now. In Matthew and Mark, they don't state specifically why he betrayed Jesus, only that he agreed to do it. In Luke, it says that the devil went into him. In John, Satan went into him the moment Jesus handed him the bread, and Jesus told him (or maybe Satan) "Do what you need to do." On the Gospel of Judas, Jesus had asked him to do it
He hangs himself in the book of Matthew. In Acts, he buys a field with the money from his betrayal, falls into it, and bleeds.
If we were to take the gospels as impartial, than Maybe he was in fact possessed. Then wouldn't his death have been unjust? And if Jesus telling him what he had to do was at the devil and not him, did he have any choice in the matter? In the gospel of Judas, he was asked to as well. His agency was not present there either. And if not possessed, and if the gospels were written biased, did the disciples think of him that way? To think of him possessed was easier than to think of him a simple betrayer? The first three don't cite him by name, only saying that Jesus had predicted a disciple's betrayal. Only John's gospel has Jesus physically point out the traitor. Matthew says he felt remorse. The other three gospels don't say anything about his death at all. Despite being one of the most controversial figures in the bible, so much of his actual motivation is so vague or hidden. His agency in the matter is so questioned too because wasn't he part of the great plan? Why did Judas betray Jesus? Did he have a choice? Did his friends mourn him at all?
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