The Gospel According to St. Judas the Iscariot: Forgiving the Unforgivable. [View all]

https://qmichaellewis.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-gospel-according-to-st-judas.html

I want to stress that this work is based upon my opinions and is by no means an assertion of facts. This is not a defense. It’s not an apology. It’s a very long read—a full reexamination of Judas Iscariot, told through the structure of the Gospel of Mark, and filtered through the failed theology of a man who loved the wrong version of Jesus.

Across seventeen chapters, this work walks through the Gospels—especially Mark—and reconstructs Judas not as a villain, but as a believer. The only Judean in a group of Galileans. A man raised on the old hope: two messiahs, one priest and one king. A man who watched Jesus step into both roles, and then refuse to claim either. A man who didn’t lose faith—but placed it in the wrong version of the kingdom.

Matthew gives him grief.
Luke gives him Satan.
John gives him shame.
But Mark gives him silence.

That silence becomes the heart of the narrative. Judas watches the crowd form, the nation organize, the moment arrive—and Jesus dismisses it all. Walks past it. Offers no revolution. Just bread. Just surrender. And when Judas finally acts, it isn’t out of hatred. It’s desperation. He’s trying to stop Jesus from walking off a cliff. Trying to rescue him.

But Jesus doesn’t resist.
He walks into death quietly.
And Judas breaks.

The Gospel doesn’t record his death. Just his absence.

This is a Gospel of mistaken belief.
Of prophecy, proximity, and collapse.
Of how even those closest to Jesus can still fall away.
And how sometimes the worst betrayal comes not from rejection—
but from love that couldn’t understand.