Under Jewish law, a meeting accusing someone of a crime or arranging for an arrest could only take place in the court house, not a normal house, so the meeting was illegal! (but not the last illegal meeting as you can read on the on the Accusations page!) So on the Tuesday evening, after all the Temple services had finished, he went to the house of the Chief Priest, Caiaphas, to see if he could help to betray Jesus. Judas might have thought that the arrest of Jesus would have started an uprising and that he could then lead the Jews to victory, or he might have wanted more power among the Jews and saw that this was a good way of doing it, as Jesus didn't seem like he was going to start anything. The devil entered Judas and made him go to the Jewish leaders and betray Jesus. But all Jesus did was to preach and heal, not to fight! Judas was probably also a member of an anti-roman freedom fighting group, so Judas had hoped that Jesus would lead a Jewish revolution to over throw the Romans and give back Israel to the Jews. He was thought to be good with money, but secretly he was a thief! This meant he would have held all the money and arranged where Jesus and his followers stayed on their travels. He was thought to be a good administrator and was the treasurer for Jesus and his disciples. So the most important Jewish leaders would have thought that he was the only 'proper' Jew! (People from the north of Israel were often thought of as lower class and stupid!) Jesus and the rest of the main disciples came from the northern 'Galilee'. Judas was the only one of the main disciples that came from the southern 'Judea' part of Israel. He was also thought highly of in the Jewish community. Judas came from a town called Kerioth, so he was known as Judas Iscariot, meaning 'from Kerioth'. This probably took place on the Tuesday Evening in the Passover week, although some people think it might have happened during the Wednesday afternoon. Jesus had spoken several times about someone betraying him during his ministry, although people did not understand what he was talking about. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over. Then one of the Twelve-the one called Judas Iscariot-went to the chief priests and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" So they counted out for him thirty silver coins. He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present. They were delighted and agreed to give him money. And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus. Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.
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