Betrayal of Christ. The kiss of Judas, also known as the Betrayal of Christ,is how Judas identified Jesus to the multitude with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests and elders of the people to arrest him, according to the Synoptic Gospels. The kiss is given by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper and leads directly to the arrest of Jesus by the police force of the Sanhedrin. Within the life of Jesus in the New Testament, the events of his identification to hostile forces and subsequent execution are directly foreshadowed both when Jesus predicts his betrayal and Jesus predicts his death. More broadly, a Judas kiss may refer to an act appearing to be an act of friendship, which is in fact harmful to the recipient. The gospels of Matthew and Mark both use the Greek verb, which means to kiss, caress; distinct from i; especially of an amorous kiss It is the same verb that Plutarch uses to describe a famous kiss that Alexander the Great gave Bagoas. The compound verb has the force of an emphatic, ostentatious salute. Lutheran theologian Johann Bengel suggests that Judas kissed Him repeatedly: he kissed Him more than once in opposition to what he had said in the preceding verse: Greek: phileso, a single kiss, and did so as if from kindly feeling. According to Matthew 26:50, Jesus responded by saying: Friend, do what you are here to do. Luke 22:48 quotes Jesus saying Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss? Jesus' arrest follows immediately. In the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom the Greek Orthodox Church uses the troparion Of thy Mystical Supper., in which the hymnist vows to Jesus that he will .not kiss Thee as did Judas. Of Thy Mystic Supper receive me today, O Son of God, as a partaker; for I will not speak of the mystery to Thine enemies; I will not kiss Thee as did Judas; but as the thief, I will confess Thee: Lord, remember me in Thy kingdom. The scene is nearly always included, either as the Kiss itself, or the moment after, the Arrest of Jesus, or the two combined, in the cycles of the Life of Christ in art or Passion of Jesus in various media. In some Byzantine cycles it is the only scene before the Crucifixion. A few examples include: Probably the best known is from Giotto's cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio. A sixth-century Byzantine Mosaic in Ravenna. A fresco by Barna da Siena. A sculpture representing the Kiss of Judas appears on the Passion facade of the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona.