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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 jesus and to lose faith in jesus ...

>> 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 cell, jes...

>> johns disciples are still around long after the death of jesus. perhaps the biggest difference is that ultimately, in the early jesus movement, theres an appeal to gentiles and as soon as the gentiles are converting to this new movement, we get a much more successful global kind of mission. >> but johns voice can still be heard in a very direct way through one of jesus most famous teachings, the lords prayer itself. >> father, hallowed be thy name. >> the words spoken by jesus were directly i...

>> but its judas himself isnt the person that the author in the text is most interested in. >> regardless of whether judas was a good or bad character in this text, what most scholars would agree is that the gospel of judas is not really about the figure of judas. the disciples are the ones being criticized by the author. >> the real shock reveal of the gospel of judas is that none of the disciples are good. that probably should have been the headline. none of the disciples are that great. >> th...

Hes gentle to his disciples, shall we say. >> the jesus that we meet in the gospel of judas is a little different from the jesus that we know from the pages of the new testament. hes a much more mysterious character who speaks in riddles that are so difficult to understand that a lot of the time were left scratching our heads when we read it. >> let the strong one among you bring forth the perfect human. >> but the character of judas is also completely different. >> the other disciples fail to u...

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...

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. >> possibly judas is critical of all the disciples of jesus, frankly. and these disciples are standing as kind of ciphers. theyre symbols of the orthodox church of the second century. >> it seems that its written as a criticism of mainstream christians. who are engaged in...

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 cause jesus to begin the events that would topple the roman empire. >> these political intrigues form the backdrop to one of the most celebrated scenes of jesus life, the last supper. >> this place comes from the lat...

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 judas view. this is a text thats about judas. >> the gospel uses the familiar scene of the last supper to paint a very different picture of judas and jesus fr...

>> leave her alone! >> jesus has been preaching this message about the poor and ministering to them and giving away your coat. and now all of a sudden hes going to let this woman pour a huge amount of moneys worth of perfume on him. >> this ointment could have been more than 300 and given to the poor. >> sort of one set of rules for the disciples and a different set of rules for jesus. we can see why this event would upset judas. >> this was a big turning point for judas because immediately afte...