While the Bible tells us how Jesus called some of the disciples, that’s not the case with Judas Iscariot. He’s simply listed among the 12. It might seem like a huge oversight on Jesus’ part to call someone who was so fatally flawed and would eventually betray him, but each of the...
According to the legend, this is the tree that Judas the apostle hung himself, it is found everywhere in Israel. That might be why that name stuck. But it might also simply come from the fact that it isnative to Judea. Theabundant pink bloomingis one of the most distinctive features of ...
Judas’s surname is more probably a corruption of the Latin sicarius (“murderer” or “assassin”) than an indication of family origin, suggesting that he would have belonged to the Sicarii, the most radical Jewish group, some of whom were terrorists. Other than his apostleship, his ...
What is remarkable about the film is its attempt to re-evaluate the known facts surrounding a chosen disciple of Christ-who evidently needed a Judas to betray him so that he would be crucified and thus die on the cross to leave his mortal body. Christ picked Judas; Judas did not pick...
That Jesus should have shown so little foresight in the choice of an apostle naturally caused great perplexity to his followers; and consequently the Gospels present the facts of the betrayal as well as the character of Judas from partizan points of view and in different ways. According to ...