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Face2Face with Judas: Encountering the Betrayer of Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

In God’s plan to save lost sinners, Jesus had to suffer and die. But that meant there had to be people who would bring this about. How did Judas, one of the Twelve and part of Jesus’ inner circle of followers for several years, become one such person? What can we learn from one of the Bible’s grimmest portraits?

(v. 60). He had already portrayed himself as bread that gives life not just for a day but for ever. How is it that feeding on him can give eternal life? Jesus had a shocking answer ready: ‘the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world’ (v. 51). He closed off all other options. There is only one way to receive the life he came to give, and that is by eating and drinking his flesh and blood (v. 53). Jesus’ words clearly point to his willing death. He spoke of
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