Others have suggested a more political motive for his traitorous act. “There have always been those who have wanted to tie Judas's betrayal to the fact that he had a love of money,” Cargill points out. John, however, made clear that Judas was an immoral man even before the devil got into him: He kept the “common purse,” the fund that Jesus and his disciples used for their ministry, and stole from it. Like the Gospel of John, the Gospel of Luke also cited Satan’s influence, rather than mere greed, as a reason for Judas’s betrayal. Judas then went on his own to the priests of the Temple, the religious authorities at the time, and offered to betray Jesus in exchange for money-30 pieces of silver, as specified in the Gospel of Matthew. When they asked who it would be, Jesus said “It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” He then dipped a piece of bread in a dish and handed it to Judas, identified as the “son of Simon Iscariot.” After Judas received the piece of bread, “Satan entered into him.” (John 13:21-27). Possible Motives for Judas Iscariot's BetrayalĪccording to the Gospel of John, Jesus informed his disciples during the Last Supper that one of them will betray him. Judas is seen seated at the opposite side of the table. Jesus made an announcement of betrayal at the Last Supper. But surname might be evidence that he's from the southern part of the country, meaning he may be a little bit of an outsider.” “Jesus is from the northern part of Israel, or Roman Palestine. “One of the things that might set Judas apart from the rest of Jesus's disciples is that Judas is not from Galilee,” says Robert Cargill, assistant professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Iowa and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. Some scholars have linked his surname “Iscariot,” to Queriot (or Kerioth), a town located south of Jerusalem in Judea. Intriguingly, Judas Iscariot is the only one of the apostles whom the Bible (potentially) identifies by his town of origin. Though the Bible offers few details about Judas’s background, all four canonical gospels of the New Testament name him among Jesus’s 12 closest disciples, or apostles. Who Was Judas Iscariot? What We Know from the Bible In recent years, the discovery of the long-lost Gospel of Judas, a Gnostic text originally dating to the second century, has led some scholars to reconsider his role, and even to ask whether he might have been unfairly blamed for betraying Jesus.
Given how little we actually know about him from the Bible, Judas Iscariot remains one of the most enigmatic-and important-figures in Jesus’s story.
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