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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 window of opportunity was going to be narrow at best. The chief priests wanted Jesus arrested and killed, but they also wanted it kept quiet. Jerusalem at Passover was so crowded they couldn’t possibly feel safe doing it during the days of the feast itself (Mark 14:2). That meant waiting until the feast was over and Jesus, along with thousands of fellow visitors to the capital, would be heading away again. Would the right moment arrive—a moment when many had left but Jesus was still
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