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>> 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 to happen in judas thats going to lead him to fall away from ...

Gospel of judas actually depicts the disciples as misguided idiots, people who dont have access to the truth. really jesus treats them as a lost cause. >> in the gospel of judas, the other disciples are praying and venerating in ways that make jesus laughs at them. >> why are you laughing at the thanksgiving? >> and they seem to be leading people astray. >> it is what is right. >> i am not laughing at you! >> nor are you doing this by your will but rather it is by this that your god will be prai...

Wandering around today with some sort of holy blood in them. >> theres one page in particular, that is 63, 64. and yes, yeah. there are two moments in the gospel of phillip that really say something interesting about the relationship between jesus and mary magdalene. one is that he, jesus, refers to mary magdalene as his companion or consort. it says explicitly that jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other disciples. >> why do you love her more than all of us? >> why do i not love you as i...

Following god. they think that theyre serving jesus. theyve been misled all this time. >> the message of the gospel of judas is not simply that jesus is betrayed by judas in his lifetime but that his teachings are being betrayed after his death. >> the author of the gospel of judas is angry, but hes not angry at the events that transpired in the first century between jesus and judas. hes angry at church leaders in the second century. >> the gospel of judas is critical of all the disciples of jes...

Will protect you and will entirely be with you for he has the -- >> the gospel of mary suggests that marys relationship with 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? >> in is clearly a fight between the disciples for supremacy, for who is going to be the chief disciple and who properly carries on jesus...

Kissed mary magdalene. >> all places for there to be a hole, its there. what did it say? that jesus kissed her often on the lips? or is it rather less racy? is it kiss her on the forehead or the feet? >> so if you happen to be a fan of dan brown and "da vinci code," and youre reading that, theres a quote from the gospel of philip, jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth or on the

Question. >> forgive us our sins. for we also forgive those who sinned against us. >> the answer that comes back from jesus will prove one of the most famous moments in the new testament. >> jesus asks these disciples to tell john that hes doing all these things. its all about action. >> you met with him. what did he say? >> the good news is preached to the poor. the lame walk. the blind see. im doing all of this stuff, john. so i am what you expected to happen. >> as he languishes in his prison...

>> 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...

When jesus and his disciples meet for the last supper, the tension is really building up. is through the week that theyve been in jerusalem, there have been increasing conflicts with authorities. something big was about to happen. >> i think theres a real sense of foreboding at the last supper, the way that its portrayed in the gospels. >> theres that moment in the meal, this intimacy, to eat a meal with somebody is to be family with them. jesus announces that one of you,

Relationship between mary magdalene and jesus and the other disciples and thats the last folio which is in folio 51. can we see that one? there it is. beautiful. so when saying 114, we see a little argument, a dispute, a little scene unfolding. >> the gospel of thomas tells of an angry episode when peter says his resentment against mary. >> tell mary to leave us because shes a woman and not worthy of life, spiritual life. similar to the jewish tradition that women arent supposed to be taught tor...