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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 to happen in judas thats going to lead him to fall away from jesus and to lose faith in jesus and ultimately...

Does judas resent jesus, or is he just disillusioned, or is he just confused? >> we dont know what made judas do what he did. i can imagine a lot of different motives. >> in the gospel of matthew, judas betrays jesus for 30 pieces of silver. >> for me, greed doesnt work as a motive because judas spent the last one to three years traipsing around the judean desert and galilee presumably for no money. so why now all of a sudden is this person greedy? >> so what else would drive judas to double cro...

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 actual author of the gospel of judas remains unknown. >> its not the gospel according to judas. so all the other gospels that we have are always according to one disciple or the other. but this is not necessarily jud...

>> 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 collectors. >> there was recruitment by jesus, deliberate recruitment. and he wanted a divers...

>> 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 have had to do with the fact th...

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 follows jesus during the many months that he preaches in galilee, but what happened during that time? an astonishing discovery made in egypt in 1945 points to one shocking answer. >> this is ground zero for those co...

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 to happen in judas thats going to lead him to fall away from jesus and to lose faith in jesus and ultimately...

If you want to terrorize people you dont go to the office of the county employees. you go to a big box store, a mall, a train station. from the very beginning were i heard that somebody walked into a conference room, started a dustup, left and came back, that wasnt the cause, that was simply the trigger. he had been preparing for it like so many disgruntled employees do. he had the explosives, the guns, he had the driver. he wanted them to know it was very personal that he was unhappy about some...

Eight at the adult table, four or six at the kids table, whats the difference? >> you are the only democrat in south carolinas congressional delegation. >> yes. >> the state houses, both the state legislature, both senators obviously all republican. people think of this as a solid red state. >> yes. >> do you think that is true in an ongoing way or do you think that the democrats could make up ground here? >> oh, yes, we could. no question about that. i think we will. i really love what jaime ha...

This is something we need right there. we found out what we need already. ooh. >> what were looking for. >> new sentence. ooh, this is manifesto. this is their policies, their rules. and we have family respect. youre involved on the inside, and how you supposed to act. your hierarchy as you rise up. >> generically they call that information officer 9-3, knowledge. and if youre going to represent as any gang member youre supposed to be able to spout that knowledge. >> this is good. well have this...