When Judas had eaten the bread, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus told him, “Hurry and do what you’re going to do.” (John 13:27)Judas had thought of betrayal often enough that sooner or later he would investigate it seriously.
The price (the thirty pieces of silver) was not nearly enough to justify the action yet when it came down to action, Judas chose wrong.
Was it because his mind was so full of imagined rewards and outcomes? Or because he felt he had debased himself so far that he might as well go through with it?
As Jesus had said, the thought was the same as the action.
Maybe Judas felt himself trapped and couldn’t figure out how to get out of the trap.
Maybe he figured that having gone as far has he had gone, Jesus wouldn’t really accept him back.
(written in 1987)
