What are we meant to learn from the Judas' story?

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Don’t betray Jesus?
Betraying Jesus is the worst sin of all?
Betraying others is the worst sin of all?
Suicide is the wrong option?
Suicide is the worst option?
For 30 pieces of silver?how pathetic. money can surely warp us so badly?
Someone has to play the bad guy in order for the main character to be more heroic? (sorry, not meant to be disrespectful)
 
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Just a bit of background … in the gospels, Jesus teaches about those who are honest about little things will be honest about big things and those that are dishonest with little things will be dishonest with big things. Imagine, while Jesus is teaching this message, he looks over at Judas, the accountant and treasurer for Jesus and the apostles, and gives him a knowing look like, “hey, I know you’ve been stealing from our funds”.

In it’s bare essence, what I get from the Judas story is that Christ will bring anyone to His heart, even those who betray him for He exemplifies agape.
 
To me the most important lesson is that you always have to be on guard, or you may be tempted and fall away. Having been an apostle, having witnessed everything that Jesus taught and did, and still, fell away. The forces of evil can always snatch you away, if you let them. That is why the Apostle St. Paul, who was often called holy, said that he was working out his salvation, in fear in trembling.
 
This is a good question!

There are many things to learn from Judas’s “story” in the Gospels.

Maybe one of the biggest is the message of the Divine Mercy and the consequence of rejecting it. Jesus said, those who walk not through the door of his Mercy in death are obliged to pass through the door of His Justice. There is much remorse in Hell, as Judas possessed before hanging himself. But Judas did not ask for forgiveness from Jesus for what he had done. He did not ask for Jesus’ Mercy. He could easily have been taken back. I think Jesus called him “friend” at the moment of Jesus arrest in the garden.
 
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The importance of forgiveness. Especially God’s forgiveness of us through Jesus
 
in the Gospel of John Chapter 6

Jesus says

6:70 Jesus replied to them, ‘Did I not choose the Twelve of you? Yet one of you is a devil.’

read the chapter
 
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“The tragedy of Judas is that he could have been St. Judas.”

– Ven. Bishop Fulton Sheen

Peter and Judas have parallels in their behavior during the Passion. But the difference is that Peter entrusted himself to the mercy of God, and Judas despaired.
 
Someone had to be the bad guy for the Greatest Story Ever Told, to be told.
 
I think all sins ultimately stem from the original sin — the sin of pride.
 
Judas is a complicated character. He didn’t want Jesus killed; yet, he was dumb enough to hand him over. Obviously, he greatly regretted this decision and committed suicide. In my opinion, he’s guilty of Involuntary manslaughter. Consequently, I hold out hope that he’s not damned.

Just think, had he went into hiding instead, Jesus would have later appeared to him and offered forgiveness. In an alternate history, Judas could’ve been one of the greatest saints.
 
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n an alternate history, Judas could’ve been one of the greatest saints.
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I think some of us, who have experienced darker moments, can relate to Judas. That feeling of “I don’t deserve forgiveness. I’m beyond redemption.” Dare we admit on here that we have felt suicidal at times as well?
 
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Judas may have been the most sophisticated of the twelve Apostles. He was a Judean while most of the others were not so well educated Galileans. He seemed to be power hungry and would have liked to have been the power behind the Throne.
Jesus who knew what was in every man had no illusions about Judas. He didn’t select the twelve apostles because of their holiness. He selected them as a cross-section of humanity.- the good, the bad and the ugly. Judas speaks to our age when the Church is still reeling from the sins of Judas Priests in our own generation.
 
Judas betrayed Jesus, fell into despair, believed he couldn’t be forgiven, and killed himself. Peter betrayed Jesus as well but held some hope in life to be a better man. The greatest irony here is that if Judas lived a few days longer he would have seen the greatest miracle ever. The greatest tragedy is the he could have been St Jude.
 
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And there’s the lesson for us. Our lives can be either tragic or full of life and hope. Sometimes it’s a fine line.
 
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