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Spy Wednesday: Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd. + Commentary Where does the Divinity show up in this event? Is it found in the action? In the heart? In the spirit? Adam & Eve took a bite. Cain slaughtered Abel. Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery. The Kings of Israel were whores to women, money, and power. We often look at Judas’s actions on “Spy Wednesday” as strange, peculiar, and radically awful. We look disdainfully on the man who conspired to convict & murder Jesus as a traitor. Yet what Judas did on that day was not abnormal. He acted on behalf of the greedy, sinful hearts of Israel on that day. He acted on behalf of humanity. He did what we all would have done. Jesus was standing between us and our domination. Our deserved future. And no matter what Judas thought the resulting sequence would be, it wouldn’t matter. It would have ended up the same—with some amount of power passed on. But by derailing the earthly Jesus movement, Judas unintentionally set in place a cataclysmic event to redeem humanity…and power.  Judas did what humanity does—steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus did what Divinity does—what humanity can not. We’d played our role and Jesus played his. Divinity was written all over the betrayal. It was being betrayed.   It was, in fact, the most normal thing Judas could have done.

Spy Wednesday:

Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them. And they were glad, and agreed to give him money. So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.

+ Commentary

Where does the Divinity show up in this event?

Is it found in the action? In the heart? In the spirit?

Adam & Eve took a bite.

Cain slaughtered Abel.

Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery.

The Kings of Israel were whores to women, money, and power.

We often look at Judas’s actions on “Spy Wednesday” as strange, peculiar, and radically awful.

We look disdainfully on the man who conspired to convict & murder Jesus as a traitor.

Yet what Judas did on that day was not abnormal.

He acted on behalf of the greedy, sinful hearts of Israel on that day. He acted on behalf of humanity.

He did what we all would have done.

Jesus was standing between us and our domination. Our deserved future.

And no matter what Judas thought the resulting sequence would be, it wouldn’t matter. It would have ended up the same—with some amount of power passed on.

But by derailing the earthly Jesus movement, Judas unintentionally set in place a cataclysmic event to redeem humanity…and power. 

Judas did what humanity does—steal, kill, and destroy.

Jesus did what Divinity does—what humanity can not.

We’d played our role and Jesus played his. Divinity was written all over the betrayal.

It was being betrayed.  

It was, in fact, the most normal thing Judas could have done.