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What Was Judas Thinking?
What was going on in Judas’s mind when he sold Jesus for a measly sum of 30 pieces of silver? Did his greed convince him to chose a small sum of money over Jesus’ life?
I’m convinced Judas believed Jesus could have escaped miraculously or through some other method (Luke 4:30). Any one who can walk on water can walk through walls (John 20:19). Or, possibly that Jesus would be freed upon being declared innocent, as Pilate originally discovered in the only legal trial and tried to do (Luke 23:13-17).
This means Judas thought Jesus could take care of His situation – and Jesus could have even called 10,000 angels (Matthew 26:53). No harm done, and Judas could make a little extra money. That is the attitude of many today. No harm in our messed up priorities. In the end, won’t Jesus take care of everything?
Don’t get me wrong, grace can cover anything God wants and needs. But did God design the role of grace to cover us selling out our Savior, selling our soul, so we can gain as much as the whole world (Matthew 16:26), or as little as 30 dollars?
When Judas saw that Jesus was condemned, he felt remorse, confessed, and returned the blood money (Matthew 27:3). I don’t think Judas thought Jesus’ condemnation would ever happen. Now that it did, will the chief priests and elders now sell Jesus back to Judas for 30 pieces of silver? Right then, God could have forgiven Judas through grace, but Judas didn’t ask. What must have been going on in Judas’ mind was that there was no coming back from selling Jesus for the price of a gored slave. Judas then killed himself. He didn’t understand what was going on in Jesus’ mind. That is Jesus being “gored” by nails on the cross was worth more than 30 pieces of silver, even for Judas. It was and still is, worth our eternal souls.
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