Why Judas betrayed Jesus? Jesus spent about 3 years to influence and teach Judas, Jesus also gave several chances to him, but he still betray Jesus. Although I can not be absolutely sure that why Judas betrayed Jesus, but some things can be certain. First, Judas was chosen as one of the twelve disciples, but the evidence of the New Testament all points to Judas that he never believed Jesus is son of the God, he is even not sure that Jesus is the Messiah; even he followed Jesus for three years and seen all the miracles that Jesus had made. Not only this, Judah never called Jesus "son of the God" as other disciples do, but instead of “teacher”, because he thinks Jesus was just a teacher. When other apostles disclosed their faithfulness of Jesus, Judas still has remained silent (John 6:68, 11:16) …show more content…
We can take a look at the order of the twelve disciples list in the Synoptic gospel, they are almost the same, except some minor differences (Matt 10:2-4; Mark 3:16-19; Luke 6:14-16). It is believed that this order indicated that the extent of the relationship between Jesus and his disciples. Peter, James and John are always in the front, and this is consistent. Judas is always at the last, may imply the estranged relationship between Jesus and him. In addition, there is a few dialogues between Jesus and Judas, and these dialogues are about Jesus condemn Judas because of his stingy conversation to Mary and Judas does not recognize that he would betray Jesus (Matt 26:25; Luke