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And he wanted a diverse group. judas may well have been one of the very first he recruited. >> jesus was a pretty good judge of character. anyone who jesus had chosen as a disciple must have had something going for him. >> judas was the treasurer of jesus 12 disciples. he was the one jesus trusted with the money. >> jesus saw in judas the kind of man that he wanted to be his follower. we have to assume that theyre friends and that they have this close relationship. >> hes special. he has a key p...

For no money. so why is this person all of a sudden greedy? >> so what else would drive judas to double-cross jesus? >> i am with jesus of nazareth and can bring him to you. >> some experts think that judas was a zealot. a zealot is a technical term for a group of revolutionaries who are really strongly opposed to roman occupation. if judas was one of these revolutionaries, maybe he got frustrated jesus wasnt taking enough action, being public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. >> maybe he...

Well. the gospel of judas is real. >> along comes a bombshell, a newly translated ancient manuscript. >> its a major question of biblical proportion. >> the gospel of judas is the subject of intense debate and interest. >> in 2006, nearly 30 years after its discovery, the gospel of judas is finally revealed to the world. >> this is a new gospel. it tells a new story of the last days of jesus christ. its a dialogue between jesus and judas. >> it is the only known copy of a text originally written...

>> and the author drives the point home in a lurid dream sequence. >> the disciples nightmare is absolutely horrific. its just a terrifying scene. >> they are sacrificing their wives and children. there are men engaged in sexual relations with men. >> we saw a great house with a great altar in it. >> its sort of panoply of sin, and theyre very frightened by this vision that they have, and theyre not really sure what it means. >> and 12 people whom we say are priests. >> jesus responds by saying,...

Who were supporting jesus. we have mary magdalene. but we also have joanna, the wife of herod and susanna and many others. so there are a lot of women supporting jesus. which means that theyre also following him. theres a name for people that follow jesus and that name is disciple. in any situation where someones holding the purse strings, they have power. theyre in control. so the fact that shes a backer of the jesus movement, it doesnt mean that she gets to shape jesus teaching, but it gives h...

They had no idea that such things existed. theyd never been made public, and theyd been kept inside in a private chapel for the pope and for his inner circle, so this is a very thrilling moment for -- for believing catholics all over the world. >> if these are the bones of peter, then they are one of the catholic churchs most significant discoveries. >> its very exciting, because it puts us into direct contact with the historical peter. >> peter was the most important disciple of jesus. >> peter...

Peter came to rome to lay the foundations of the christian church is not in the bible. now, can scientific testing of peters relics reveal new truths about the life of the first disciple, his role in the formation of the christian church in rome, and help tell us if the bones discovered beneath st. peter basilica are really his? the gospels tell us that peter is a fisherman on the sea of galilee. >> hes one of the few apostles that we have some hints about his home life, so we know that hes marr...

Living representative of what the life of a disciple could be, how you can overcome mistakes made in the past and carry on to serve god well. >> he is arguably jesus closest friend. >> peter was that person who was closer than a brother. jesus was fully man, and that man needed friends, and peter was that friend. >> at the same time church tradition places peter in rome, the historian tacitus tells us the city is a very dangerous place in which to be a christian. >> in ad 64 a disastrous fire br...

Rev. Kathy Brumbaugh discusses how Jesus prayed for his disciples and for future generations of believers.

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