Judas Decides to Betray Jesus
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Intro:
Intro:
This week is known as Passion Week, or also called Holy Week. It is the week leading up to Jesus’ death and resurrection. Many different events took place in this week:
Jesus’ Triumphal Entry (Palm Sunday)
Jesus Goes to the Temple (Monday)
Religious Leaders Question Jesus (Tuesday)
Judas Decides to Betray Jesus (Wednesday)
The Last Supper (Maundy Thursday/Holy Thursday)
Jesus’ Crucifixion (Good Friday)
Jesus Was Dead (Silent Saturday)
Jesus is Risen! (Easter Sunday)
Today in the Holy Week timeline was the day that Judas betrayed Jesus. One of his own followers, someone who got to know Jesus closely, would be the one to turn Him into the religious leaders to be eventually crucified.
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3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas, 4 and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him. 5 “Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”
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14 Then one of the Twelve, the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him. 16 And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray him.
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17 On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
18 “Go into the city to a certain man,” he said, “and tell him, ‘The Teacher says: My time is near; I am celebrating the Passover at your place with my disciples.’ ” 19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover. 20 When evening came, he was reclining at the table with the Twelve. 21 While they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
22 Deeply distressed, each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?”
23 He replied, “The one who dipped his hand with me in the bowl—he will betray me. 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.”
25 Judas, his betrayer, replied, “Surely not I, Rabbi?”
“You have said it,” he told him.
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Eventually Judas would arrive with a large mob of people, telling them that the one he would kiss is the one to arrest.
How could Judas do this? It seems like he loved the things of this world more than he loved Jesus.
We are like Judas
We are like Judas
You see, we are like Judas. Mankind betrayed God back in the garden, when Adam and Eve chose to sin against God. They believed the lie from the serpent and turned against God.
From that very moment, sin entered into the world and would spread to every single man woman boy and girl.
But God had a plan.
He promised a Savior, one that would crush the head of the serpent. One that would come and make all things right.
And he did.
But Jesus faced many difficult things the week leading to his death.
From hearing the praises of the people saying Hosanna! To later hearing the cries “crucify him!”
Jesus was mocked, beaten, bruised, and crucified for us.
For mankind who betrayed Him, for people who wanted nothing to do with Him.
Paul tells us this in Romans:
6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. 8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus died for undeserving sinners like you and me. That is what makes this week so important. But not just that…
It’s that He rose again. He died and came back to life just three days later.
How should we live differently?
How should we live differently?
This message of good news changes everything. It’s not just something you believe in once and that’s it, like asking Jesus to save you and then you’re all good until you get to heaven.