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ifimakemybedinhell · 2 years

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if judas didn’t realise that the trial would lead jesus to his death (basing this on the fact that the sanhedrin did not have the power to sentence people to death, a fact i can’t remember the source for, sorry*), then it’s possible he thought he was bringing him back to orthodoxy, away from terrifying premonitions of death and godhood. it’s possible he was scared by the future he saw coming of a rebel execution and ended up causing it anyway. no wonder he’d feel guilty and ashamed and terrified and heartbroken.

*they didn’t, but looking it up jesus may not have been tried by them but a group of priests from the temple

#judas #well now i have made myself sad :(#this goes against my 'revolutionary judas' headcanon but tbf #even if you are a revolutionary that doesn't mean you want your friends to die #mb he believed the council could set him right & stop him before he did too much damage #but no #the situation had gone too far #we don't know too much about the machinations behind the scenes #at least as far as i know #we have joseph of arimathea and nicodemus noted as being on the council #but being on it is not the same as being in the inner circle & aware of all pressures from pilate/roman authorities #idk i should read a book on this instead of Guessing but idk what book to read #oooh okay it's not a book but:#https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jesus #says the trial may not have been the sanhedrin at all but a bunch of sadduccees deciding to hand him over to pilate who gladly took him #meaning we def don't have a source for machinations #love to research things v slightly & likely miss a ton of nuance #but still #& i've ignored the influence of herod here too #BUT caiaphas was installed by pilate's predecessor so we have a link there #also i found an actual book but it is #912 pages long i will Die

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