Hello my friends this is Matt it's the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and Judas is

scary it is fascinating isn't he because he went and did something murderous and

horrible and it's kind of weird isn't it how intriguing that kind of dark behavior is well I have of angles in the text thinking about economic factors, psychological factors, character factors.

Now we're thinking about a couple other angles as we talk about it more today and land the

plane on the conversation.

So my friend Jeff, who makes music for this podcast and edits so dutifully, a wonderfully

a wonderfully talented man, is now going to select some music and play it and then we're

going to get back into the flow of the conversation. Matthew is content to let Judas be the betrayer and to fully own his decisions and

everything that went into that at least at the most overt level.

We're going to talk more about how Judas is a fulfillment of some Old Testament

storylines that are left flapping in the wind, but we'll get to that later on. Luke, who is very

interested in demonstrating that there was a grand cosmic conspiracy

against Jesus in the spiritual realm as well as in the hearts of wicked men and government and that Jesus was

right and from God and that he is vindicated.

You know, Luke really wants to spell it out for us and make it very, very clear

that no, it wasn't even just human evil that propagated

this lie about Jesus' guilt before the government and the dishonorable death that he suffered.

It was a satanic lie directed and orchestrated by Satan as well,

whereas John takes a much more long-term heavenly spiritual view of everything and it fits thematically very

neatly into the way he tells his story in the editorial choices he makes to

demonstrate that there is this much bigger than flesh and blood battle going on that is playing out in the events

surrounding the cross. So everybody's motivations make sense for why they include the detail or omit the detail.

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