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 Ju
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 Ju
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