Denny answers:
Judas chose to sin. He never believed in Jesus as His own savior and He never truly became His follower.
People who truly trust in Jesus as their savior want the things that Jesus wants. They don’t want to hurt Him. Judas decided that he would rather have money than protect the Man he claimed to follow. Maybe Judas also was jealous of Jesus and wanted to take Him away from His close friends and loved ones. We can’t know for sure all of the things that Judas was thinking.
Satan used Judas to accomplish his goal of killing Jesus. Satan thought that once Jesus died, he would be in control and win his battle against God. However, Jesus is more powerful than even death! He came back to life (this is called His resurrection) and then returned to heaven. Even though Judas did a very, very horrible thing – a sin that led to Jesus’ death – God made a good thing come out of this evil. Jesus was resurrected and we can trust in Him as our own Savior of our sins.
Bible Truth
- “‘Yet there are some of you who do not believe.’ For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him” (John 6:64).
- “Then one of the Twelve – the one called Judas Iscariot – went to the chief priests and asked, ‘What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?’ So they counted out for him thirty silver coins. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand Him over” (Matthew 26:14-16).
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