Does the Gospel of John really have the baptism? It says Jesus came before John. And it says a spirit from heaven and a dove. But if I were to read John without knowing about the baptism from the synoptics, I don’t think I’d think John baptized Jesus. I definitely has the setting, but it seems to skirt around the event.
I’m going by memory here and am too lazy to look it up but didn’t the last supper happen before Judas’ betrayal and didn’t Jesus say, at the last supper, that Judas will betray him?
Judas accept the money to betray before the last supper. After the last supper, he delivers by IDing Jesus.
You’re right; I forgot about that part.
Why did they need Judas, though? Wasn’t everyone briefed to look for the Ted Nugent look-alike with the disk on his head:)?
Bart Ehrman’s guess is that Judas didn’t report Jesus’s whereabouts but ratted out Jesus’s claims to be the future king (post-Apocalypse). That would have been enough for the Romans to kill him.
I’m no Biblical scholar, but this makes more sense than “We can’t find that guy who’s really pissing us off.”