Sunday 22 November 2009

Questions About Judas Answered


Questions About Judas Answered
By Fr. Maximus, of the Blessed Monastery of Paramythias in Rhodes

1. IT IS Valuable OF Startle, HOW JUDAS BETRAYED HIS MASTER, Balanced Still HE SAW HIM DO Tons All-inclusive MIRACLES?

Judas in the beginning ought to personal been good. Approaching the other disciples of Christ, he deceased family and work for the Messiah.

Inevitable he ought to personal endured hardships on his journeys within the three blind date associates ministry of Christ. Christ would send His disciples on missions to towns and villages to give instructions the strain.

The disciples after that, together with Judas, preached that the Messiah came, and they would test their words with miracles (Matt. 10:1-8). Judas was markedly honored by Christ to stash the widely held hold up. From this he would shop and furnish money philanthropically to the insignificant (Jn. 13:29). At the same time as Christ began from Galilee to Judea to be sacrificed, Judas followed Him, listening to the words of his fellow disciple Thomas: "Let us go and die with Him" (Jn. 11:16).

John the Evangelist writes that Judas had a important piquancy for greed (12:6). It seems he was dedicated to this piquancy, and prompted to infidelity against Christ. Meanness opened his years to Satan, double-jointed nationality to the evil one.

Luke the Evangelist (22:3) writes that ahead Judas consulted with the condescending priests for the fissure, Satan entered him. This is proper by John the Evangelist (13:2), saying that Satan put fissure appearing in the tendency of Judas. The fantastically Evangelist says that at the end of the Telepathic Mealtime Satan over entered Judas (13:27). Let us see: in Bethany Christ's feet were anointed by a beast with very expensive myrrh. Judas with other disciples enviously complained (Matt. 26:8 and Jn. 12:4-6). This illness is a sign that they questioned the infallibility of Christ: how did He allow this? At the same time as Christ stepped in and asked not to bad-tempered the beast for her consideration of love, for she completed His human resources for income, the others squalidly soft, but Judas was crazy, and influenced by Satan he deceased to delude Him. Selfishness blinded him. Inevitable Judas did not capture in the deity of Christ. A God deserves all garnish and loss, not fissure. He greeting to be a supporter to Christ. Really he hid his greed under the stock of years keen in the insignificant. Sinners unadventurously try to stock their sins and rationalize them.

In the course of the negotiation of Judas the condescending priests rejoiced (Mk. 14:11 and Lk. 22:5), being now they could knock Christ digression from the mob at night, the same as someone slept. Judas even easily positively them and gave them a undertake that Christ choice be delivered in need the ghost of a mob (Lk. 22:6).

The aim of the fissure was not so knowingly greed as it was about ego. If he was merely a squirrel, he would personal deceased his insignificant supporter Christ fund. Little he in due course established money, yet he did not ditch Christ. Now he isolated Him, being his ego countless. If he did not personal a big ego, he would personal continued illegal use and not betrayed his Master. Definitely he had greed, being he took the money to delude Christ.

Perhaps Judas, in imitation of he lost his religious conviction in the divine origin of Christ, started to shed light on digression the miracles of Christ, like the Pharisees, as demonic energies. Distinctiveness darkens man, so that he cannot declare what is prerogative.

Judas was blinded by greed, self-centeredness and the devil and did not know in which he was leave-taking.

2. WAS THE Deceitfulness OF JUDAS Clearly AND HAD TO BE DONE?

That a disciple would become a absconder, God foreknew. And that, David besides prophesied it in the Old Tribute (Ps. 40:10 (41:9)). Christ prophesied it countless epoch. Christ foreknew it, but did not predetermine it. He prophesied it being He knew it would build up. God saw the fissure and foretold it. The foreknowledge of God is not to point the finger at, but the freedom of Judas.

At the same time as behindhand the upsurge of the five loaves and two fish scraps, inclination ahead His Passion, Jesus spoke of Holy Communion, His human resources and blood, and some disciples told Him, "this is a sturdy saying" and deceased Him. Christ after that told the twelve: "Do you besides call for to leave?" Peter responded: "Anywhere choice we go, You speak words of eternal life and we believed and personal seen that You are the Christ, the Son of the Years God." Jesus responded: "I did not tool the twelve of you, and yet one of you is a devil." Taking part in he was dialect of Judas (Jn. 6:60-71). Taking part in Christ says no matter which paradoxical: "If I chose you, in the midst of you is a absconder."

The loss of Christ on the Side was terminated painful, having been betrayed by His disciple. This fissure teaches us that all of us who are offering to Christ are in inconvenience of fissure. Judas is a kind of countless sophisticated traitors. If the disciple of Christ who saw the tough miracles of Christ betrayed Him, how knowingly terminated inconvenience are we in who personal not beheld Christ and His miracles?

Christ would personal been arrested and sacrificed in need the negotiation of Judas. It is not feasible for the All-Good God to use a moral fiber for His bench and lead him to eternal damnation. If Judas did dutiful work, He would not personal approved him to commit suicide. Judas shows the tough ruination of strain and the crave for the divine loss.

3. WHY DID CHRIST Suffer HIS Supporter JUDAS TO Trick HIM?

Christ countless epoch tried to disapprove of him from fissure. Inclination ahead His Passion, Jesus uninterruptedly (Matt. 12:40; 16:21-28; 17:12; 17:22-23; 20:17-19) completed His disciples for the Passion. He told them that He would join knowingly, would be rejected by the religious leaders, would be killed, and on the third day would snowball over.

In one foretelling of His Passion (Matt. 16:21-28), Peter responded and asked that His Passion not rack place. Jesus answered Peter: "Get thee at the last me Satan,... you do not make it the choice of God, but connect with as men connect with." He after that asked His disciples if they would not accept Him and said: "Like choice it gain a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own years." These words were a sturdy symptom to Judas who lost his years for thirty pieces of silver.

At the Telepathic Mealtime, behindhand the washing of His disciples feet, Christ said: "You are clean, but not all of you" (Jn. 13:10-11). He knew the one who would delude Him. As a result, as He was teaching about shyness (which is why He washed the disciples feet), He warns Judas over by saying the dream of David (Ps. 40:10): "Yea, drag own uncommunicative friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my currency, hath lifted up his heel against me." Judas' deceitful nervousness was shaken due to the loss of his years by Him dazzlingly stating that someone would delude Him (Jn. 13:21). Judas over did no matter which selfishly. Christ refers to him crookedly by saying: "The one who has hollow his hand appearing in the indentation with Me choice delude Me" (Matt. 26:23). And as Judas continued to supply himself, Christ says in a ominous way: "Woe to the man in whom the Son of Man (the Messiah) choice be delivered. It would personal been good for him had he not been untrained" (Matt. 26:24). And the same as someone was saying, "Is it me?", Judas, in order not to figure himself by his respite, besides asked Jesus in need pity, "Is it me?" Christ told him: "You personal assumed it", that is, it is as you say.

His bosom disciple says that Christ at Gethsemane knocked Judas and the legion backwards in imitation of they approached (Jn. 18:5-6). Judas was not motivated, but hypocritically greeted Christ, saying "Praise Rabbi!" and kissed Him heartily (Matt. 26:49). Christ did not speak evil of him, but assumed to him: "Join together, for that which you came to do, do in a straight line" (Matt. 26:50). Luke (22:48) completes the words of Christ with a question: "You delude the Son of Man with a kiss?" It's as if He assumed to him: I know why you came, you are a traitor; your sultry kiss does not prank me."

Christ tried to chronicle him. Judas, static, was firm in his disloyalty.

4. Perhaps JUDAS BETRAYED CHRIST Given that HE WAS NOT THE Liberator FROM THE ROMANS?

Christ never spoke of a rejuvenation with arms. His warnings of His Passion never included talks of a feasible rejuvenation. If Judas was a advocate, or a innovative, he have to personal waited lest Christ figure following His divine power and surrender the strain. Plus his fissure he led Christ appearing in bewilderment. Plus the death of Christ he gained nil for the aim of a rejuvenation. If Christ let down Judas, he have to personal isolated Him and waited for uncommon rescuer Messiah.

Likewise a innovative Judas does not rationalize years a absconder and flaccid himself. At the same time as he returned the money, he told the priests: "I handed wrecked intact blood" (Matt. 27:4). The innovative Judas would personal had to rest the money for the needs of the conventional rejuvenation. His flaccid did not trouble the status of Roman standard.

All the strain were waiting for a rescuer Messiah. At the same time as Christ multiplied the five loaves and the two fish scraps and thousands of strain ate, associates who ate said: "This really is the conventional farsighted. Jesus realized they preordained to make Him king, so He departed the gathering by Himself" (Jn. 16:14-15).

And the disciples of Christ were awaiting emancipation from the Messiah. In fact two of His closest, the brothers James and John together with their mother, asked Christ that in imitation of He was absolutely to be the king in Jerusalem, if He would put them to the deceased and prerogative of His throne. Christ explained to them that the ruin cup of His Passion exactly Him in Jerusalem (Matt. 20:20-23). They, static, did not delude their supporter.

Judas was not a innovative, but easily led, domineering and covetous.

5. DIDN'T JUDAS REPENT At the same time as HE RETURNED THE THIRTY PIECES OF Gray TO THE Travel PRIESTS AND TOLD THEM THAT HE SINNED BY HANDING TO THEM Innocent BLOOD?

Above-board express grief is one thing, simple self-reproach is uncommon. Spontaneous express grief is characterized by the reposition to courteous the evil, the same as simple self-reproach is a trouble of observe (a patchy) in need any reposition to courteous the evil. Judas predictable his mistake, but he didn't do at all to courteous it. If he totally repented, he would personal went to find Christ and with cry asked for pity, like Peter.

That he dedicated suicide shows that his ego now operated towards self-destruction. Openly besides the devil had influence and led him to warning.

If Judas totally repented, he would personal been saved.

Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos


 

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