Was Judas sent to Hell or was he forgiven?

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In Matthew 26:15 it states: “and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.”_ Here Judas is making a choice to betray The Lord.
But in Luke 22:3 “Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.” It’s not Judas’ fault as Satan possed him.
And in The John 13:27 "As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” Here Jesus knows Satan possed Judas and is speaking to Satan, not Judas.
In Matthew Judas says "I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” Then “So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.” And in Acts 1:18 “(With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.”
He seems very repentant and overcome with guilt so much he killed himself.
So is Judas in Hell or was he forgiven?
 
This calls for speculation and conjecture. Only Judas and the Lord know. It is not looking good for Judas. However, the Church as never declared anyone to be in hell.
 
It’s a very interesting topic. I’ve been contemplating this ever since I converted to Catholicism.
 
One must die in order to know, but I would not go so far as to be dying to know. The only way of knowing he is in hell is to go there. But, as they say, “don’t go there!”
 
Just to be clear that even if Judas is in Hell, and only God knows where he went, Judas was not sent to Hell.
Anyone in Hell chose to go there by dying in a state of mortal sin. God does not send anyone to Hell.
 
Jesus Himself said “I never knew you, depart from Me” to people He condemn
 
I repeat. God does not send anyone to Hell. People who go to Hell freely choose to go there by committing a mortal sin and dying in that state.
The Church does NOT teach that God sends anyone to Hell.
 
Then, please elaborate about Mat 25:31-46
  1. He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
  2. Then He will say also to those on the left hand, "Depart from me, you cursed…
Notice that in the parable, Jesus said clearly that The Son of Man is the one who will do it.
 
ServantofChristJesus said:
In Matthew 26:15 it states: “and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.”_ Here Judas is making a choice to betray The Lord.
But in Luke 22:3 “Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.” It’s not Judas’ fault as Satan possed him.
And in The John 13:27 "As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” Here Jesus knows Satan possed Judas and is speaking to Satan, not Judas.
In Matthew Judas says "I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” Then “So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.” And in Acts 1:18 “(With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.”
He seems very repentant and overcome with guilt so much he killed himself.
So is Judas in Hell or was he forgiven?
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Judas was a thief and an unregenerate. He discovered that he was not accepted by the conservative Jews because he was in Jesus’s group, and he was loosing his source of income with the death of Jesus, which he learned of. Jesus said that Judas was lost (John 17:12).
  • John 6: 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him.
  • John 12: 6 Now he [Judas] said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.
  • John 13: 2 And when supper was done, (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,)
  • John 13: 10 Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. 11 For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: You are not all clean.
  • John 13: 27 And after the morsel, Satan entered into him [Judas]. And Jesus said to him: That which thou dost, do quickly.
  • John 17: 12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture may be fulfilled.
  • Matthew 26: 24 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not been born. 25 And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said it.
  • Acts 1: 25 To take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas hath by transgression fallen, that he might go to his own place. [Haydock Commentary: " Verse 25 To his own place of perdition, which he brought himself to. (Witham)"]
 
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Futaba said:
Then, please elaborate about Mat 25:31-46
  1. He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
  2. Then He will say also to those on the left hand, " Depart from me , you cursed…
Notice that in the parable, Jesus said clearly that The Son of Man is the one who will do it.
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He set them on his left based on their own actions & decisions. Those are what send people to Hell.
 
Jesus made two other comments about His betrayer that have not yet been mentioned. He stated that it would be better for him if he had never been born, and he called him the “son of perdition”. I think we can state with more than a little certainty that Judas is in hell.

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I think of Hitler - overcome with grief - because Germany had lost the war -
same type of thing…
but I know what you mean, you don’t want anyone to go to Hell…
and you do wonder - who actually has the highest seats of honor - down there in the flames !
 
It is likely that Judas went to Hell. Several Bible passages point in that direction. Also, visions of several saints indicate large numbers of people go to Hell, so it is the easy wide road.
 
As others have correctly pointed out, we really have no idea. However Matthew 27: 3-8 would indicate legitimate remorse on Judas’ part.
 
Interestingly, Judas actually confessed and repented (gave back the money - the very definition of “doing a 180”…he just did both to the wrong person:

“Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”

Matthew 27:3-4
 
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As others have correctly pointed out, we really have no idea. However Matthew 27: 3-8 would indicate legitimate remorse on Judas’ part.
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Haydock Commentary, Matthew 27
Verse 3
— Then Judas, … repenting himself. A fruitless repentance, accompanied with a new sin of despair, says St. Leo. (Witham)

— Perceiving that Jesus was delivered up, and remembering what our divine Saviour had said concerning his resurrection, he repented of his atrocious wickedness. Perhaps Satan, who assisted and urged him on to betray his Master, deserted him, not that he had prevailed upon the unhappy miscreant to perpetrate what he had so passionately desired. But how could Judas see that Jesus was condemned? He certainly did not see it, but foreboded in his despairing mind what would be the event. But some are of opinion that this passage is referred to Judas himself, who then became sensible of his crime, and saw his condemnation impending over his head. (Origen)

— For the devil does not blind his agents in such a manner, as to leave them insensible of the crime they are about to commit, till it is perpetrated. (St. John Chrysostom)

— Although Judas conceived a horror at his crime, and confessed it, and made satisfaction to a certain degree by restoring the money, sitll many essential conditions were wanting to his repentance:
  1. Faith in Christ, as God, as a redeemer, as the sole justifier from sin;
  2. besides this, there was also wanting hopes of pardon, as in Cain, and a love of a much injured and much offended God.
Hence his grief was unavailing, like that of the damned. If Judas, says an ancient Father, had had recourse to sincere repentance, and not to the halter, there was mercy in store even for the traitor. (Haydock)
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