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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?

The love of money clearly had Judas in its grip. Who knows how long it had been growing within him? It shows its full strength in his question to the chief priests—one of the vilest questions ever asked: ‘What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?’ (Matt. 26:15). Had Jesus been guilty of crimes, Judas would have had no grounds for demanding payment. Going to the authorities would then have been simply right. They could only
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