Jesus: Peter will deny me in just a few hours,
Three times will deny me -- and that's not all I see:
One of you here dining, one of my twelve chosen
Will leave to betray me!
Judas: Cut out the dramatics! You know very well who.
Jesus: Why don't you go do it?
Judas: You want me to do it!
Jesus: Hurry they're waiting.
Judas: If you knew why I do it...
Jesus: I don't care why you do it.
Judas: To think I admired you! For now I despise you.
Jesus: You liar -- you Judas!
Judas: You want me to do it. What if I just stayed here and ruined your amibtion? Christ you deserve it.
Jesus: Hurry you fool, hurry and go. Save me your speeches, I don't want to know.
from the apocryphal gospel of Andrew and Timothy, Act 1, Chapter 13
4 comments:
Oh, you are awful. I knew I had heard that interpretation before. Thanks for confirming.
When do we get the scroll about the awful accident with the Yamaha skid, genitalia and a petrol/dustbin lid?
Apparently, the new gospel proves that Jesus did indeed "Walk like a woman" and "wear a bra"
You win the internet, Andrew.
LOL. I first "discovered" Superstar when I was about 13. I attended an evangelical Lutheran church, so this idea that Judas had something other than pure evil in mind when he betrayed Christ was radical and uncomfortable for me, and yet I knew there was something to it. It brought up the question that if our salvation was accomplished by Jesus' death and resurrection, and presuming that was part of "The Plan," then was Judas likewise part of "The Plan"? And, if so, was he really to blame? Did he exercise free will in betraying the Lord, or did he simply do what he was fated to do from time immemorial? And, as Christians, aren't we compelled to forgive him anyway, no matter how horrible the crime?
I find the Judas Gospel very interesting, but I don't think it's an authentic view to Christ. I am uncomfortable with the way Jesus mocks his disciples in this text for not understanding his opaque teachings; that seems most un-Christian to me. Also, this Gospel would have Judas and Christ in collusion to deceivethe other disciples into thinking Judas had betrayed Jesus. I believe God does not always tell us the entire truth of things, but I won't accept that we are ever intentionally deceived.
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