Judas betrayed Jesus because he saw following Jesus as not being profitable for himself. He didn’t see any personal gain in being associated with Jesus as the Messiah King to overthrow Rome. Instead of viewing Jesus as a savior, Judas may have misunderstood Jesus’ mission and saw no benefit for himself in continuing to follow him. This led him to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, ultimately making the decision to hand Jesus over to the authorities.
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Ponder this:
Judas betrayed Jesus because Judas wanted things done his way & not God’s way.
He KNEW that Jesus was our Messiah & he wanted to force Jesus to come into power as a king & remove the Romans from Israel with armies of angels & rule forever.
Just like it’s not nice to fool mother nature, it’s not nice to make your plans God’s plans.
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The Collect from Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) in the 1962 Mass reads as follows:
O GOD, from Whom Judas received the punishment of his guilt, and the thief the reward of his confession: grant unto us the full fruit of Thy clemency; that even as in His Passion our Lord Jesus Christ gave to each retribution according to his merits, so having cleared away our former guilt, He may bestow on us the grace of His Resurrection: Who with Thee liveth and reigneth.
This should answer what the Church traditionally believed about Judas’ fate.
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Jesus would not have saved himself because his destiny was to die for our sins.
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I am in a Discord where a Protestant speculated that “The Chosen” purposely left out the scene where St. Peter rebukes Jesus (which I cannot confirm they did or didn’t include it, as I am only at the beginning of Season 3). He thought it was left out so that Catholics would not get upset.
Catholic Christians are not afraid to point out the bad things former and current leaders have done. Follow the Trads on Twitter and you will see criticism of the 265th successor of St. Peter on the daily 
We know St. Peter’s worst moments in Sacred Scripture, and we also know the moments of great conversion. Conversion is not a one-time thing. Conversion is a process. A life in Christ has wonderful high points as well as shameful moments on our part. But, Jesus never gives up on us. He certainly did not give up on St. Peter. And He doesn’t give up on us!
In Matthew 16:23, Jesus uses the Greek word skandalisomen, meaning “stumbling stone” to describe Peter’s inability to understand Jesus’ teaching that “He must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly.” Peter did not want to believe that the Lord would suffer.
Jesus replies, “Get behind me, Satan,” because, like Satan, Peter was trying to convince Jesus that He does not need to suffer and continue His mission.
The only other time this word is used in Scripture is to describe Jesus in 1 Peter 2:8, where it describes our Lord as “a stone that will make [unbelievers] stumble.”
And in St. Paul’s first letter to the church in Corinth (chapter 1, verse 23) he describes the teaching of Jesus’ crucifixion as being a “stumbling block” to Jews & Gentiles, when he writes, “We preach Christ crucified…”
Humans can’t fathom that God could, or even would suffer and die for us. I have heard Muslims argue that Christ could not be God, because how can God die? This teaching is a “stumbling block” for them as well.
I answered “yes” because on March 30th, 1949, Jesus dictated to His spokesman Maria Valtorta the following:
“[…] for Judas was bold in his crime and, though knowing he was revealing himself in his full horror and branding himself forever with the world’s disdain as long as the world existed, he defied everything and came, in the presence of a people whose reactions he did not know, to point Me out to the assassins. He professed himself to be my disciple by that act and did not deny it; he was and wanted to be known as the ‘betrayer’ and the ‘deicide.’”
“In reality, the thirty coins were the heavy stone which Judas tied around his neck to plunge into the abyss, and the mad hope of triumphing in just any way—after he had been unable to be the ‘great one’ of Christ, King of Israel—was the rope which made him a suicide, deprived of Life and life eternally dead, dead, dead; eternally satan, satan, satan. The second Lucifer for God the Son as the first Lucifer was such for God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, both of them rebels, proud, and greedy and both of them struck down—the Archangel and the Apostle—by Divine Justice.”
“As Judas, to get a justification for his iniquitous action, by every means sought to make Me appear as a sinner, in such a way that he would appear as a just man tormentedly acting against his friend to give honor to God, to persuade the uncertain that I was a false Christ, and to fortify the adversaries, in order to crown his mad dream.”
“The third great, mysterious, and inexplicable defection is that of Judas Iscariot, who spontaneously wanted to belong to Christ, who enjoyed his love for three years and fed on his Word, and who, because he was disappointed in his concupiscent dreams, sold Him for thirty denarii, changing from an apostle—that is, chosen for the highest spiritual dignity—into the betrayer of the Friend, the deicide and suicide.”
(The Notebooks: 1945-1950, pp. 483-520;572-609)
Peace to all,
To me, logically, Judas became to know so did Pilate and Dismas and Longinus. The keys are given to those who become to know Jesus is God.
And I don’t think rationally Peter believed Jesus is God before until he heard the cock crow , but three times. It was logically, right then when Saint Peter gave up fear from Roman Soldiers of his own life for the Life of The Christ.
What is logically “Chosen” since 0 A.D. (Anno Domini, Latin for The beginning of Church Time and The Years of the Lord(s), The Father, Mary and Jesus and today is the New Living Sacrifice, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of God, The Host, Jesus conceived by The Holy Spirit Family of God becoming The Christ in all mankind that transforms and glorifies and transfigures all becoming again One Holy Spirit Family One God in being in all mankind and we are all disciples and The Apostles of Christ today who are picked to carry forward the “Chosen” Ark of The New Covenant and in a special way and not on the back of an Ox cart.
We know not to preach or proselytize but to generalize the faith for all to understand rationally and truthfully trusted and verified becoming from the Faith of Abraham and The God of Two natures, spirit and life becoming again in all.
Logically we know we cannot judge anyone but our own soul to become again.
To me the autonomy of the Power of The Holy Spirit allows one to stand self-righteous and justified before Him transformed to become again through the Power from the state of the last spirit power selected becoming glorified and transfigured in the image of the Father in the Holy Spirit Family One God in being.
Peace always,
Stephen