THE REAL JESUS - JUDAS THE BETRAYER - Garner Ted Armstrong - March 1978

Garner Ted Armstrong

How did Judas Iscariot, fervent disciple, turn into Judas Iscariot, ultimate traitor? God only knows his inner motivations, but here's how it might have happened. It is very likely that Judas was a pleasant enough personality. For slightly more than three and a half years, from the time of his first eager acceptance of Jesus' call and his determination to remain a loyal disciple of Christ, Judas, as any other human being, would have drawn close to the other eleven. But in any group of a dozen human beings, there will grow and develop certain personal associations, and certain personality clashes and petty resentments. Each man was a strikingly different and unique personality, and it is therefore natural that two or three of the disciples would tend to gravitate toward each other, thus forming several different groups among the twelve. There would not be an artificial, homogenized, equal relationship among all of them. Judas no doubt formed a few fairly friendly attachments among the disciples. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library