Did Jesus feel anger toward Judas Iscariot?

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Hi everyone. My wife and I are devout Catholics (cradle Catholics) and this morning we were discussing the Last Supper and the way Jesus suffered that night the next day being Good Friday. We’ve been taught that Jesus (while on earth) was fully human and also fully God. My wife asked me if Jesus felt anger toward Judas for betraying him since he knew this was going to happen, and how this was going to happen. I tried to “logic it out” in my head from the perspective of knowing that our Lord was fully human and also fully God. I’m stumped on this one. Does anyone know if Jesus felt anger toward Judas prior to the Crucifixion?
 
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We don’t know. Anger is a human emotion, and Christ felt all of the human emotions. We can only speculate how our Lord felt during these days.
 
I would imagine not. He came for this very purpose. Disappointment and sorrow probably. I’m not disputing that he ever felt anger… we know he sent away the marketeers from the Temple… I’d say that was righteous anger. He’s more inclined to forgive than resent. He loves us, even in our weakness.

‘love is patient, love is kind… it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs’
 
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Respectfully, I disagree. He didn’t even rebuke Judas. He just told him to do what he was planning. Of course, @TheLittleLady is right, we don’t know, so it’s best guesses 🙂
 
I think for the most part, Jesus was just saddened by Judas. However, I can imagine him being angry about the kiss.
 
Maybe, but probably more compassion than anger. At the Last Supper Jesus made him understood that he knew what he was planning to do and gave him the chance to repent but Judas chose not to.
 
Jesus did say that it would be better for Judas not to have been born. Pretty strong statement! Probably our Lord had great pity for Judas, and love, but also righteous anger for him and any person who betrays Him.
 
It’s worth remembering that our Lord washed Judas’ feet - hardly the actions of one seething with anger! Our Lord loved Judas, he chose him as one of the 12; ate with him, walked with him, rested with him. If anything, Jesus must have felt anguish at Judas’ action, wishing that Judas would not be so stubborn, so determined to do things his own way rather the trusting in God’s will. I understand Jesus’ comment about if being better if he had not been born as referring to the torment Judas suffered as a result of his own action and the darkness which he drove himself ever deeper into until he could see only one way out - by taking his own life.
 
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It’s worth remembering that our Lord washed Judas’ feet - hardly the actions of one seething with anger! Our Lord loved Judas, he chose him as one of the 12; ate with him, walked with him, rested with him. If anything,
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You can be angry at someone and still love them.
 
The St Alphonsus Stations of the Cross (I forget which one) address Christ as “my outraged Jesus”.
 
That would put him at odds with what he tells us in Matthew 5:22. Let’s not forget that he is the perfect man… our model of right behaviour.
 
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Does anyone know if Jesus felt anger toward Judas prior to the Crucifixion?
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As for me… re: Anger or Not … I don’t relate to how or why this should be wondered…

Scriptures does not directly indicate Anger…

That said, Jesus did say - “Would be better had Judas I not been born”

That said, We are not to say If Judas I - shall indeed wind up in Hell - permanently
 
Maybe anger to his sin. Anger that God’s beloved children have turn to sin, but I think he still loved him. He could only be angry because He loved him so much and yet Judas decided to tun to dark side. Anger of losing your beloved child.
 
Why single Judas out? Each and everyone of us are guilty of betraying our Lord through sin.

Jesus did not die because Judas betrayed him. If Jesus was angry with Judas, would that mean he is angry with each of us too?
 
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Why single Judas out?
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No. Major Traitor Judas wasn’t singled out.

As an Apostle of Jesus - by taking the 30 pieces of silver offer from the Jewish Leadership whose goal it was to have Jesus Murdered, Judas’ Free Will betrayal of the Messiah - Son of God! _ is not to be presented as being an Equivalence to just any other sin by others…
 
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