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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 place. and yet somethings going ...

>> 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 in public enough, pressing the matter hard enough. >> maybe he handed over jesus in the hopes that creating a confrontation between jesus and the romans would be the spark that would ...

>> 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 in the second century a.d. the act...

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 her access to jesus. >> mary...

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>> i know who you are and whence you have come, and im not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you. >> judas is singled out as the one disciple with whom jesus feels he can speak openly. judas understands. >> hell take judas aside and explain to him cosmology, his own fate, and the role that judas is going to play in human history. >> this lost gospel appears to give a new explanation of the betrayal of jesus and exonerate the man reviled throughout history, judas iscariot.

Jesus is resented by peter. >> once marys finished instructing, a full scale argument breaks out between mary and peter. >> did he prefer her to us? >> what do you think? that i made this up in my heart, that i am lying about the savior? >> this is clearly a fight between the disciples for supremacy, for who is going to be the chief disciple and who properly carries on jesus teachings and missions. >> peter might have felt that it was his rightful role to be the leader and it might very well hav...

Why did judas betray jesus? thats really the biggest question in the entire gospel. >> in the new testament gospels, jesus starts his mission traveling through galilee and judea, gathering followers. from them, he chooses 12 to be his closest disciples. >> the term "disciple" simply means learner or student. so when jesus is calling disciples, hes simply gathering a group of students around to learn from him. >> the disciples come from a wide range of backgrounds. from fishermen to tax collector...

Are you ready to help stop americas precipitous decline? are you excited about the opportunity to fix this country? i want to hear loud applause, no applause. how happy are you with president trumps first 30 days? [cheers and applause] this is historic opportunity. for us to get this country together. i spent an entire year last year, this is how corrupt the media is. you go back to 2007, 2008, remember i was doing something called vetting barack obama, dear member that? if you werent watching, ...

Weve now got back channelling for pro-putin peace deals in the ukraine. i mean, this is a totally different situation than we had just a month ago. you know, the head of the national security council, the national security adviser was someone who bid on the payroll of rt, a russian propaganda arm. i mean, its incredible when you step back and think about it. and i think at the crux of this is the fact that -- i actually want to take a little issue with what was said earlier. i dont think its the...