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While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.
What does Judas mean in the Bible?
Judas: a brother and a Son of God, as much a part of the one Sonship as the man beside him, left uncondemned by the one he is said to hand over
Christian Psychology lens · Matthew 26:20
Where Judas appears in the Bible
John 13:26
Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
Acts 1:13
When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Mark 3:19
and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. Then he came into a house.
Judas through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Luke 22:47
Christian Psychology
The reproach spoken at the kiss could not have come from him. To ask whether the Son of Man is betrayed that way is to hold that betrayal is possible, and a mind on its way to showing that condemnation cannot happen does not open by charging a brother with it. Judas is a brother and a Son of God, and nothing was laid against him.
The punishment that later tellings call down on the betrayer, the woe pronounced on him elsewhere in the Gospels, was set there by men whose own guilt turned to anger as they remembered, and they wrote that anger into a mouth which held none. What the moment does show is the shape attack prefers. It arrives looking like affection, so no form of harm can be trusted simply because it wears a lovely face.
The betrayal worth finding is not in that crowd but in the mind that reads of it, in the belief that it condemned God's Son to death. That belief is the darkest stone in the foundation of all guilt, and it stays buried because nothing less than the crucifixion of God's Son would satisfy the ego's appetite, and no mind can bear to know that it wants that.
- Judas: a brother and a Son of God like any other, uncondemned by the one he came to hand over
- The kiss: attack in the form the mind finds loveliest, harm arriving as affection so that it will not be refused
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Esoteric · John 13:26
Esoteric
The morsel dipped and handed over is the point where higher awareness feeds the very faculty that will betray it, Judas being the lower desiring mind that takes spiritual substance and turns it toward the flesh and its price. To give him the sop is to release that force to do its work, for the descending drive must act out its betrayal before the cycle can close. Born the son of Simon, of hearing, it received truth yet bent it downward. In a person this is the moment awareness lets its lowest craving carry the truth it will sell.
- Sop: the spiritual substance passed to the faculty that will turn it downward.
- Judas Iscariot: the lower desiring mind that takes truth and sells it to the flesh.
- Son of Simon: born of hearing that received truth yet bent it toward the body.
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Commentaries on Judas
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Judas
same as Judah: the praise of the Lord; confession
Fillmore, Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (1931) · Judas
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