This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we examine the betrayals. Yes, plural of Jesus. And discuss which characters are involved in it.

Plural betrayals. It's gonna sound like Jonah. I'm trying to tell me there was more than one fish.

Crazy pub, yes.

It's a wonky trail. I know the story of Jesus.

Or do we? I think we do. We just don't realize that. Right. Exactly. Good answer. Like that.

All right, let's talk about betrayal. Let's talk about Judas. At least when we know we got coming, right?

We got to talk about Judas. One of those interesting characters in the Gospels. Judas is scary it.

We have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Judas. And we project a lot of stuff onto Judas. Mind you.

And I find I found a deeper understanding.

Comes from the cultural setting of the conversation. And it's much more, it's been much more helpful in my learning of the story.

By the way, learning of the story. Learning from the story is the reason that we study the Bible. Just remind ourselves.

You know, study the Bible to have feelings. I mean, we do. That's beautiful. We should share that. I'm not that's it.

That came off really harsh. Feelings are fine. I'm not trying to make this cold.

But we study the Bible to be provoked. We study the Bible to be changed. We study the Bible to learn from the story.

Not just form opinions and get feelings from the story. So just a reminder, we kind of get lost in that sometimes.

I think learning about the person of Judas is what brings a little bit of humanity to the story, particularly of Judas.

Nothing I'm going to try to save him here necessarily. It's not where I'm headed.

But it brings humanity to Judas, brings humanity to the disciples, brings humanity to the story of Jesus betrayal.

We don't know a whole lot about Judas from the text until the last week of Jesus' life.

We know that Judas is some of the things we know before that. We know that Judas is in charge of the money.

It becomes clear that the disciples are certainly, particularly the writers of the gospels.

They're definitely identifying him as the betrayer. They definitely want him from the very beginning to be identified as Judas, the one who betrayed Jesus, Judas, the betrayer.

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