she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”
judas was probably like “jesus has pulled off so many wacky things, he’ll get out of this one lickity split, and i get three shiny coins out of it, too”
Lemme take this opportunity to lay my Biblical Studies degree on you with a serious answer no one asked for.
Iscariot was likely a reference to the Scarii, or Dagger Men, a group of political zealots bent on violent insurrection. While most of Jesus’ disciples (and many people all over Israel) were expecting Jesus to lead a revolution of Isreali independence against the Roman Empire. When Jesus rode into Jerusalem earlier in the week, everyone watching expected him to launch his revolution against Rome.
Judas was probably the most excited for this, and he was getting impatient. When Thursday rolled around and there was still no sign of an armed revolt, it’s likely that Judas tried to take matters into his own hands and try to force Jesus into the violent action Judas wanted him to take.
So yeah, it’s not out of the question that Judas expected that his betrayal wouldn’t be the end of Jesus.
been seeing a bunch of conservatives criticize indigenous civilizations for practicing human sacrifice and i was wondering if someone can explain how the military complex and late stage capitalism don’t require human sacrifice at an even larger scale
