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  Judas Iscariot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judas Iscariot (died April AD 29–33, Hebrew יהודה איש־קריות Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qəriyyôṯ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve original apostles of Jesus, and the one who ultimately betrayed him.
Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, should not be confused with Jude Thomas (or with Jude Thaddeus/Saint Jude), who was also one of the twelve apostles and a brother of James the Less.
In the case of Judas, Bulgakov presents a parody of the betrayal of Christ, as though first-century Jerusalem were Moscow in the 1920s-1930s.
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 Judas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Judas may be best known for a kiss––the kiss by which he betrayed Jesus, the Son of God, to his enemies.
Judas was that man. He agreed to hand Jesus over to the chief priests, who were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus and kill him.
Judas later realized his horrible mistake, but instead of turning to God in repentance (see Repentance), he threw the money back at the priests in regret and went out and hanged himself.
www.thewords.com /l-palau/definitions/judas.htm   (200 words)

  
 Unmasking The Betrayer
The New Testament writers disdain Judas to such a degree that in every list of the disciples given in the Gospels, Judas is always listed last, with a note of contempt after his name.
If Judas had suddenly and without warning betrayed Jesus, the disciples may have concluded that Jesus wasn't all He claimed to be; otherwise He would have known that Judas was like this, and He never would have chosen him.
Judas was one of them, and he's in hell today, because while he may have given intellectual assent to the truth, he never embraced Christ with heartfelt faith.
www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/GTYTT06.HTM   (5750 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Apostle
The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the sequence of the canon as printed in the New Testament, and scholars agree it was the fourth to be written.
The Synoptic Gospels is a term used by modern New Testament scholars for the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke of the New Testament in the Bible.
Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Apostle   (5078 words)

  
 judas
Judas is not mentioned in the earliest Christian writings--the letters known as epistles, many written by the Apostle Paul between AD 40 and 60.
The Judas story "was exploited as anti-Jewish polemic in dramatic literature and art, depicting Judas with grossly exaggerated Semitic features and generalizing his love for money," wrote the late Roman Catholic scholar Raymond Brown, whose two-volume study, "The Death of the Messiah," is considered to be among the most authoritative published.
Gleaning the meanings of the earliest accounts, he argues that Jesus and Judas together arranged Jesus' arrest as a means of presenting him to the chief priests and elders to make the case that he was the Messiah.
www.emayzine.com /lectures/judas.htm   (1650 words)

  
 Judas Maccabaeus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Judas Maccabaeus
Judas made this his headquarters, and revived religious observance there by rededicating the Temple to Jehovah.
Judas was the son of the priest Mattathias, the first Jewish leader to fight against persecution by the Syrian king Antiochus IV.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Judas+Maccabaeus   (235 words)

  
 Judas' in the New Testament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
According to the Jewish historian Josephus, Judas founded a religious group whose main belief was that their only ruler was God.
The apostles and elders of that church chose Judas and Silas to accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch; together they yielded to the church in that city the decree of the Jerusalem Council about circumcision.
Judas Iscariot is probably the most notable of those with the name Judas.
www.kyowva.com /bbacks/judasnewtest.htm   (305 words)

  
 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . WEB EXCLUSIVE . What About Judas? . March 18, 2005 | PBS
He also directly names Judas at the Last Supper as the one who will betray Jesus and describes both his attempt to return the silver after Jesus is handed over to Pilate and his subsequent suicide.
John goes even further, hinting that Judas was stealing all along from the common purse, which he carried for the disciples, and implying that he set up the betrayal to replenish what he had stolen and thus avoid discovery.
In the new Judas play, Simon the Zealot points to the disturbance at the temple, when Jesus threw out the money changers, as a moment that led the disciples to believe a revolution was coming.
www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week829/exclusive.html   (1455 words)

  
 The Death Of Judas
Judas could have hung himself from a tree branch that protruded over a cliff in order to all the fall sufficient distance so that his body could flip, but that seems odd as it would not have contributed to the hanging unless Judas meant for the rope to break.
Either Judas died when he hung himself and then later fell, or he was still alive when he fell and died when he hit the ground.
It Matthew Judas is portrayed as being filled with remorse upon realizing what he had done, returning the money that he presumably felt he did not deserve, and then committing suicide.
home.austin.rr.com /selliott4/papers/judas.html   (2005 words)

  
 Gospel of Judas
For Sophia was in the habit of carrying off that which belonged to her from them to herself.
They declare that Judas the traitor was thoroughly acquainted with these things, and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, accomplished the mystery of the betrayal; by him all things, both earthly and heavenly, were thus thrown into confusion.
Dating: the Gospel of Judas was of course composed before 180, the date at which it is mentioned for the first time by Irenaeus in adv.
www.earlychristianwritings.com /gospeljudas.html   (495 words)

  
 Christian Community Church: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Judas
Judas Maccabaeus had successfully led their nation in a war of independence against Syria back in 166 B.C. Judas’ last name, “Iscariot,” means: “man of Kerioth.” – Just like “American” means someone who comes from America, in the Greek language, “Iscariot” meant Judas and his father Simon were from Keriot(h).
Judas conspired with the priests to send their Messiah to the cross to be murdered.
And because Judas refused one opportunity after another to ask for forgiveness, because Judas refused to repent, in the end Judas was shocked to discover that he had sold his soul for a few pieces of silver and had lost everything for all eternity.
www.christiancommunitychurch.us /Judas.html   (3256 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Judas Iscariot and the Myth of Jewish Evil, by Hyam Maccoby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
...Judas Iscariot is the "sacred executioner" who inspires both hatred and awe because he has performed the great deed that is simultaneously wicked and salvific...
...Since '"Judas" and '"Judah" are the same name, and since Jesus is the son of a man named Joseph, it is odd that Maccoby did not explore the influence of the evolving Jewish story upon the Christian one-doubly odd, since he thinks Judas was actually Jesus' brother...
...In anti-Dreyfusard polemics, the equation of Dreyfus with Judas was common and unsubtle...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V94I4P58-1.htm   (1951 words)

  
 John - Chapter 13 - Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on StudyLight.org
Judas was now betraying him, and he knew it, and knew what would be the consequence of it; yet, knowing also that he came from God and went to God, he did not draw back, but went on cheerfully.
The prophecies of the New Testament concerning the apostasy of the latter times (which we have, 2 Thessalonians 2:1-17,1Ti+4:1-16, and in the Apocalypse) being evidently accomplished is a proof that those writings were divinely inspired, and confirms our faith in the whole canon of scripture.
Judas was now gone out, and had proved himself a false brother; but they must not therefore harbour such jealousies and suspicions one of another as would be the bane of love: though there was one Judas among them, yet they were not all Judases.
www.studylight.org /com/mhc-com/view.cgi?book=joh&chapter=13&verse=17#Joh13_17   (14578 words)

  
 Judas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
THE Nationals would be Telstra's Judas if the remainder of the telco was sold on the back of a deal with the party, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said today...
Judas (Hebrew יהודה Yəhûdhāh, Y(e)huda "Praise") is the name of several men in late Jewish and New Testament history:
Judas Priest, the music group, took its named from a minced oath.
www.wikiverse.org /judas   (226 words)

  
 B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament [Matthew, Chapter XXVI].
From John 13:23-26, we learn that these words were spoken to the disciple that leaned on the Savior's bosom and were unheard by Judas and the rest.
Covenant is the preferable sense here, as in most passages where the word occurs in the New Testament; the new covenant is contrasted with "the covenant which God made with our fathers" (Acts 3:25).
Judas knew the place where the Lord would go to pass the night (John 18:2).
www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/bjohnson/hg1/PNT01-26.HTM   (4101 words)

  
 James, Joseph, Simon, Judas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Greek, the language of the New Testament, neither of these pronunciations is even possible, so the name appears as "Iesous." Similarly, "Yohanan" of the Old Testament is "Ioannes" of the Greek New Testament, which is translated as "John" in English, "Juan" in Spanish, and "Johann" in German.
As we read on through the New Testament, we see that in very short order, the one who was recognized as the senior pastor, the bishop if you will, of the Christian church of Jerusalem was not Peter, not John, not John’s brother James, but James the brother of our Lord.
Judas, the youngest son of Mary and Joseph, also understood the precious Gospel of God’s grace.
web2.airmail.net /peace1/sermons/james.htm   (3491 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Judas Iscariot
This fact that Judas carried the purse is again referred to by the same Evangelist in his account of the Last Supper (13:29).
The same Evangelist, as we have seen, tells of an earlier intimation of Christ's foreknowledge of the betrayal (John, vi, 71-2), and in the same chapter says expressly: "For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him" (vi, 65).
For some thought, because Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him: Buy those things which we have need of for the festival day: or that he should give something to the poor" (xii, 26-9).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08539a.htm   (2106 words)

  
 Miracle of Old and New Testament Names
In five verses in the New Testament the Crucifixion is referred to as hanging on a tree (Acts 5:30, 10:39, 13:29, Galatians 3:13, 1st Peter 2:24).
In the Old Testament, Caleb claims in Joshua 14:10-11 that he is as strong at eighty five as he was at forty when he went to reconnoiter the Promised Land.
We have looked at most of the major figures in the New Testament and found that there are similarities between their experiences and the experiences of Old Testament figures with the same name.
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 Rejection of Pascal's Wager:The Twelve Apostles
All these show that by the time the gospels were written very little was known about most of the apostles except their names and even of these there were already divergent traditions.
In the New Testament, our knowledge of the apostles are mainly limited to Peter and the sons of Zebedee (John and James).
Judas Iscariot was the first apostle to have died (Matthew 27:9; Acts 1:18) by committing suicide after the crucifixion of Jesus around 30 CE.
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 Essays on Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Matthew xxvii, 3-10: "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
Were the New Testament now to appear for the first time, every priest of the present day would examine it line by line, and compare the detached sentences it calls prophecies with the whole passages in the Old Testament, from whence they are taken.
In the New Testament (Mark xvi, 16), it is said "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned." This is making salvation, or, in other words, the happiness of man after this life, to depend entirely on believing, or on what Christians call faith.
www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Christianity/Other_Articles/essays_on_religion.htm   (15590 words)

  
 B. W. Johnson's The People's New Testament [John, Chapter XIII].
The Revision says, "During the Supper." It is likely that Christ arose near the beginning of the feast, washed the feet, and then sat down again to the feast.
Note the fact that not once else where is it referred to in the New Testament as a church ordinance, and only once mentioned at all.
He gave a sign, and when John saw him dip a piece of bread into the sop of bitter herbs, always on the passover table, and give it to Judas, he knew he was meant.
www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/bjohnson/hg1/PNT04-13.HTM   (1119 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Judas: Images of the Lost Disciple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Judas is a name that lives in infamy: very few have not at least heard his name as a byword for betrayal, and our other images (suicide, or perhaps Dante's vision of his eternal punishment) are scarcely more pleasant.
Written by Kim Paffenroth, this book is a comprehensive portrayal of the canonical Judas, and a splendid examination of the legendary aspects of his history.
Paffenroth's fine exegesis on Judas is superior to any of the other commentators I have read.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0664224245   (633 words)

  
 Judas Thaddäus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Judas Thaddäus war der Sohn eines Jakobus (Lukasevangelium 6, 16) und einer der Jünger Jesu; er ist nicht zu verwechseln mit Judas, genannt Ischariot, der Jesus verraten hat.
Judas Thaddäus wird im Neuen Testament sonst nur einmal erwähnt im Johannesevangelium (14, 22) mit der Frage, warum Jesus seine Abschiedsrede exklusiv den Jüngern und nicht der ganzen Welt offenbare.
Nach anderen Überlieferungen wirkte Judas zusammen mit Simon Zelotes in Syrien und Mesopotamien, dann in Persien, wo beide dem Feldhauptmann des Königs von Babylon, Baradach, Sieg und Frieden prophezeiten, was tatsächlich gleich am nächsten Tag Wirklichkeit wurde.
www.heiligenlexikon.de /BiographienJ/%20Judas_Thaddaeus.html   (285 words)

  
 Betrayal
One of the most difficult characters of the New Testament is Judas Iscariot.
As interesting as Judas' betrayal might be, it will help us grow not at all unless we look at it with intention.
Judas was the only disciple of the twelve who was not from Galilee.
www.becomingcloser.org /Acts/Betrayal.htm   (1985 words)

  
 Brief van Judas
Het was in elk geval niet Judas Iskariot, de discipel die Jezus verraadde.
Volgens de brief zelf is ze geschreven door de apostel Judas, die een broer zou zijn van Jakobus (die op zijn beurt weer een broer zou zijn van Jezus, zie Marcus 6:3 en Mattheüs 13:55); waarschijnlijker is dat het om een derde Judas gaat.
De naam Judas is de vergriekste versie van de Hebreeuwse naam Juda, die 'lof aan god' betekent.
www.statenvertaling.net /bijbel/judas.html   (85 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Judas Testament
In Judeo-Christian theologies, apocrypha refers to religious Sacred text that have questionable authenticity or are otherwise disputed.
The New Testament, sometimes called the Greek Scriptures, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written after the birth of Jesus.
In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Judas-Testament   (313 words)

  
 Judas Maccabeus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Judas Maccabeus or Judah the Maccabee (Hebrew: Yehudah HaMakabi) was a Jewish patriot and the most famous member the Maccabees family.
Judas Maccabaeus : The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids
I am not a technical-musiker, so have no expert opinions, but this is a tight, brilliant performance of the oratorio....
www.freeglossary.com /Judah_Maccabee   (204 words)

  
 Biblical people: Thaddaeus (Judas, son of James) the Apostle
It is believed that he was also known as Judas, son of James (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Jesus).
And in Luke 6:16, Judas (son of James), is listed again among the 12 Apostles, between Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot.
The "Bible Knowledge Commentary: New Testament" is a popular, scholarly commentary on the books of the New Testament that will assist people in their study of the Bible.
www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p155.htm   (278 words)

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