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Judas Iscariot

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Judas Iscariot , Jesus' betrayer, possibly from the village of Kerioth, the only Judaean disciple among the Twelve, and, according to the Gospel of St. John, their treasurer. Judas went to the chief priests and offered to betray Jesus, for which he was paid the sum of 30 pieces of silver. After the Last Supper he led an armed band to Gethsemane and there identified Jesus to the soldiers by kissing him. Later, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew, he repented of this act of betrayal and killed himself. The blood money went to buy a potter's field, Aceldama . Author not available,... Read more
Judas Iscariot
...according to Matthew 27, he returned the money to the priests before hanging himself. His surname may mean 'man of Kerioth,' or it may link him to the Sicarii, a band of radical Jewish terrorists. Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot Read more
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot. The Apostle who betrayed Christ to the Jewish authorities. His death is recorded in three places (Mt. 27: 3–5, Acts 1: 16–20, and in Papias ), but only the account in Mt. is unequivocal in seeing it as suicide . Read more

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