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And kisses him. >> jesus of nazareth! >> judas is responsible for the ultimate act of wickedness, betraying an innocent jesus. >> from that moment, the name judas is synonymous with traitor. but nearly two millennia later, a new version of this shameful story emerges. the lost gospel of judas.
>> the real shock reveal of the gospel of judas is that none of the disciples are good. that's what really probably should have been the headline. none of the disciples are that great. >> the gospel of judas is a damning portrayal not just of judas but of all the disciples at the last supper. >> what's surprising is that the gospel of judas actually depicts the disciples as misguided idiots, people who don't 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...
Cross, judas apparently had second thoughts. after jesus was condemned, there had to have been a part of him that did feel remorse. >> judas clearly feels guilty after he's done this thing. we see a lot of his conscience. >> i have sinned! >> he takes the money and he throws it back. blood money. and he doesn't want to get his hands dirty with it. >> there's something terrifying about judas that you can be doing so well and then make a mistake from which you can never
>> he says you can't walk into a church anywhere without seeing a piece of what's supposedly the true cross. >> calvin laughs and says you know, if you took all the pieces of the true cross and put them together, they would fill a ship. >> yet scripture says that just one man, jesus, was able to carry it on his shoulders. >> there were a lot of people who were speaking out about the devotion of relics as something which is absurd and disgusting. and that really thought that people had lost touch with the true faith. >> the true cross had the power to divide christianity. and the question remai...
Come back. >> while all four gospels of the new testament name judas as the betrayer of jesus, only one of them, the gospel of matthew, tells how judas' own story ends. >> for me the story of judas is a tragic story. it's not the story of god giving up on judas but judas giving up on himself. >> he regrets, but he doesn't repent. and he doesn't trust that he can be forgiven, so he despairs and hangs himself. >> if you're a jew and life is the greatest gift of god, you don't go out and kill yourself unless you have been absolutely -- you shamed yourself, you shamed your family. >> judas is prob...