British Broadcasting Corporation Home. Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' twelve apostles, betrayed his master to the authorities. This act led to the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In fact the books of the Bible don't offer a consistent account of what Judas did, but the list above includes the events that most people associate with Judas. When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. But they said, 'What is that to us? See to it yourself.

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Who Was Judas Iscariot? What We Know from the Bible
Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. The Apostle who betrayed his Divine Master. Even among the Twelve there were two that bore the name, and for this reason it is usually associated with the surname Iscariot [Hebrew "a man of Kerioth" or Carioth, which is a city of Judah cf. Joshua ]. There can be no doubt that this is the right interpretation of the name, though the true origin is obscured in the Greek spelling, and, as might be expected, other derivations have been suggested e. Very little is told us in the Sacred Text concerning the history of Judas Iscariot beyond the bare facts of his call to the Apostolate, his treachery, and his death. His birthplace, as we have seen, is indicated in his name Iscariot, and it may be remarked that his origin separates him from the other Apostles, who were all Galileans. For Kerioth is a city of Judah. It has been suggested that this fact may have had some influence on his career by causing want of sympathy with his brethren in the Apostolate. We are told nothing concerning the circumstances of his call or his share in the ministry and miracles of the Apostles.
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According to all four canonical gospels , Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him and addressing him as " rabbi " to reveal his identity to the crowd who had come to arrest him. Judas's epithet Iscariot most likely means he came from the village of Kerioth , but this explanation is not universally accepted and many other possibilities have been suggested. The Gospel of Mark , the earliest gospel, gives no motive for Judas's betrayal, but does present Jesus predicting it at the Last Supper , an event also described in all the later gospels. The Gospel of Matthew states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. According to Matthew —10 , after learning that Jesus was to be crucified , Judas attempted to return the money he had been paid for his betrayal to the chief priests and committed suicide by hanging. The priests used the money to buy a field to bury strangers in, which was called the " Field of Blood " because it had been bought with blood money. The Book of Acts quotes Peter as saying that Judas used the money to buy the field himself and, he "[fell] headlong Due to his notorious role in all the gospel narratives, Judas remains a controversial figure in Christian history. For instance, Judas's betrayal is seen as setting in motion the events that led to Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection , which, according to traditional Christian theology , brought salvation to humanity. The Gnostic Gospel of Judas —rejected by the proto-orthodox Church as heretical —portrays Judas's actions as done in obedience to instructions given to him by Jesus, and that he alone amongst the disciples knew Jesus's true teachings.