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1. Simon’s son, surnamed Iscariot; one of the 12 disciples of Jesus. The derivation of Iscariot is uncertain. In all probability it designated the place of his birth, the town of Kerioth. His childhood home was perhaps Kerioth of Moab, east of the Jordan (Jer 48:24; Am 2:2), or Kerioth-hezron of southern Judah, also known as Hazor (Jos 15:25). A less feasible suggestion identifies Iscariot with an Aramaic word meaning “assassin,” a word eventually attached to Judas’s name because of his betrayal of Jesus.

Show passage in OET: JER 48:24

OET-RV JER 48:24

24 Keriyot, and Batserah, and all of Moav’s towns, both near and far.

OET-LV JER 48:24

24 And_on Qəriyyōt and_on Boʦrāh and_on all _of the _cities _of the _land _of Mōʼāⱱ (the)_far and_(the)_near.

Show passage in OET: AMO 2:2

OET-RV AMO 2:2

2 I’ll send fire on Moav,
⇔ and it will devour Keriyot’s fortresses.
⇔ Moav will die in an uproar—
⇔ with shouting and the sound of the horn.

OET-LV AMO 2:2

2 And_I _will _send _forth a _fire on_Mōʼāⱱ and_it _will _consume the _fortresses _of (the)_Qəriyyōt and_it _will _die in_uproar Mōʼāⱱ with_a _shout _of _alarm with_the_sound _of a _trumpet.

Show passage in OET: JOS 15:25

OET-RV JOS 15:25

25 Hatsor -Hadatah, Keriyot -Hetsron (also called Hatsor),

OET-LV JOS 15:25

25 And_Ḩāʦōr- hadattah and_Qəriyyōt Ḩeʦrōn that is_Ḩāʦōr.

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Judas Iscariot’s name appears last in the list of disciples (Mt 10:4; Mk 3:19; Lk 6:16), perhaps indicating his ignominy in the minds of later believers rather than his original importance among the Twelve. During Jesus’ public ministry, he managed the treasury of the group (Jn 13:29), from which he was known to pilfer money (12:6). As a betrayer, Judas contracted to turn Jesus over to the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver. He accomplished this act of treachery by singling out Jesus with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane (Mt 26:14-47; Mk 14:10-46; Lk 22:3-48; Jn 18:2-5).

Show passage in OET: MAT 10:4

OET-RV MAT 10:4

4 Shim’on (the member of the Kena’anim (Canaanites)), and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) Iskariot (who eventually turned Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) in).

OET-LV MAT 10:4

4 Simōn the member _of _Kananitaʸs and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) the Iskariōtaʸs, who also having _given_ him _over.

Show passage in OET: MRK 3:19

OET-RV MRK 3:19

19 and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) Iskariot who later betrayed him.

OET-LV MRK 3:19

19 and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) Iskariōtaʸs, who also gave_ him _over.

Show passage in OET: LUK 6:16

OET-RV LUK 6:16

16 Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) (son of Ya’akov), and Yehudah Iskariot (who eventually betrayed him).

OET-LV LUK 6:16

16 and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) of _Yakōbos, and Youdas Iskariōtaʸs, who became the_betrayer.

Show passage in OET: JHN 13:29

OET-RV JHN 13:29

29 Some of them thought that since Yehudah held their purse, perhaps Yeshua was getting him to buy something they needed for the feast or to give something to the poor.

OET-LV JHN 13:29

29 For/Because some were _supposing, because Youdas was _having the moneybag, that the Yaʸsous is _saying to _him:
Buy of _what things we _are _having need for the feast, or in _order _that something may _give to _the poor.

Show passage in OET: JHN 12:6

OET-RV JHN 12:6

6 But he didn’t say this because he cared for poor people, but because he carried the purse for the group and used to steal from it.

OET-LV JHN 12:6

6 But he _said this, not that was _caring to _him for the poor, but because he _was a_thief, and having the moneybag was _bearing the money being _thrown in.

Show passage in OET: JHN 18:2–5

OET-RV JHN 18:2

2 And Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) (the one who would hand him over) also knew the place because Yeshua and his followers often met there.

OET-RV JHN 18:3

3 Meanwhile Yehudah had met with the soldiers and servants of the chief priests and the Farisaios party, and they all started coming into the garden with lanterns and flaming torches and weapons.

OET-RV JHN 18:4

4 Yeshua who already knew what was going to happen to him, came forward and asked them, “Who are you all looking for?”

OET-RV JHN 18:5

5 And they answered, “Yeshua—the one from Nazaret.”
¶ Yeshua responded, “I am the one.”
¶ Yehudah, the one handing him over, was standing there among them.

OET-LV JHN 18:2

2 And Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) who giving_ him _over had_ also _known, the place, because often Yaʸsous was _gathered _together There with the apprentices/followers of _him.

OET-LV JHN 18:3

3 therefore the Youdas having _received the cohort, and attendants from the chief _priests and Farisaios_party, is _coming there with lanterns, and torches, and weapons.

OET-LV JHN 18:4

4 Yaʸsous therefore having _known all the things coming on him, having _come _out he _said to _them:
Whom are _you _all _seeking?

OET-LV JHN 18:5

5 They _answered to _him:
Yaʸsous the from _Nazaret.
Yaʸsous he _is _saying to _them:
I am he.
and also Youdas, who giving_ him _over had _stood, with them.

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Various suggestions have been offered to explain Judas’s traitorous deed. (1) In keeping with his patriotic zeal, Judas turned Jesus over to the authorities after realizing that his Master did not intend to overthrow the Roman order and establish a Jewish state. (2) Judas believed Jesus to be the Messiah and planned his arrest in hope of urging Jesus to usher in his kingdom. (3) He was a scoundrel who had plotted wickedness since the start of Jesus’ public ministry. (4) Prompted by a satanic impulse, Judas betrayed Jesus; however, after recognizing that he was deceived, out of remorse he took his own life. (5) With damaged pride and humiliated ego from Jesus’ caustic rebukes, Judas, originally a loyal disciple, turned against him. (6) Judas, moved by his own greed, yielded to his selfish instincts, not realizing that Jesus would consequently be tried and killed; upon learning the outcome of his betrayal, he repented in despair and committed suicide.

Judas, despondent over his act of betrayal, went out and hung himself in a field bought with his 30 pieces of silver (Mt 27:3-10). Acts 1:18 gruesomely adds that his body burst open, spilling out his intestines; for this reason the field was called the “Field of Blood” (Acts 1:19). Matthias later took Judas Iscariot’s place among the Twelve (v 26).

Show passage in OET: MAT 27:3–10

OET-RV MAT 27:3

3 When Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas), (the one who had turned him in) saw that he was being sentenced to death, he regretted his actions and returned the payment to the chief priests and elders

OET-RV MAT 27:4

4 saying, “I’ve sinned and turned in an innocent man.”
¶ “What’s that got to do with us?” they asked. “You sort out your own problems.”

OET-RV MAT 27:5

5 Then Yehudah threw the money down on the temple floor and went off and hanged himself.

OET-RV MAT 27:6

6 The chief priests took the money and decided, “We can’t legally deposit the money to the temple treasury because it’s blood money.”

OET-RV MAT 27:7

7 They got advice and decided to buy the potter’s field that was for sale to make it a cemetery for people from out of town,

OET-RV MAT 27:8

8 so that place got called ‘The field of blood’ until today.

OET-RV MAT 27:9

9 And so the message which had been written by the prophet Yirmiyah (Jeremiah) was fulfilled, ‘They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who was sold, the price set by the Israelis,

OET-RV MAT 27:10

10 and they gave the coins for the potter’s field, as Yahweh directed me.’

OET-LV MAT 27:3

3 Then Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) the one giving_ him _over, having _seen that he _was _condemned, having _been _regretful, he _returned the thirty silver _coins to _the chief _priests and elders

OET-LV MAT 27:4

4 saying:
I _sinned having _given _over innocent blood.
But they said:
What is _it to us?
You will _be _seeing to _it.

OET-LV MAT 27:5

5 And having _thrown _down the silver _coins into the temple, he _withdrew and having _gone _away hanged himself.

OET-LV MAT 27:6

6 And the chief _priests having _taken the silver _coins said:
It _is_ not _permitting to _put them into the temple _treasury, because it _is the_price of _blood.

OET-LV MAT 27:7

7 And having _taken counsel, they _bought the field of _the potter with them, because/for a_burial _place for _the strangers.

OET-LV MAT 27:8

8 Therefore the that field was _called the_field of _blood to the day today.

OET-LV MAT 27:9

9 Then the message having _been _spoken by Yeremias/(Yirmə^yāh) the prophet was _fulfilled saying:
And they _took the thirty silver _coins, the price of _the one having _been _priced, whom they _priced by the_sons of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl),

OET-LV MAT 27:10

10 and they _gave them for the field of _the potter, as the_master directed to _me.

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:18

OET-RV ACT 1:18

18 (Yehudah had bought a field with the money he had received for his treachery, and when he had fallen down in that field, his stomach had burst open and his intestines had slid out on the ground.

OET-LV ACT 1:18

18 (Therefore indeed this man acquired a_field out _of the_reward of_ the _unrighteousness, and having _become headlong, he _burst _open in_the_middle, and all the intestines of _him was _poured _out.

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:19

OET-RV ACT 1:19

19 So everyone in Yerushalem started calling that place ‘The field of blood’.)

OET-LV ACT 1:19

19 And it _became known to _all the ones dwelling _in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim), so _that that the field to _be _called in _their language of _them, Akeldama, this is:
field of _blood.
)

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:26

OET-RV ACT 1:26

26 So they drew straws and Matiyah was marked so he was chosen to join the eleven missionaries.

OET-LV ACT 1:26

26 And they _gave lots to _them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he _was _chosen _together _with with the eleven ambassadors.

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2. Son of Joseph and Mary, and the brother of Jesus, James, Joseph, and Simon (Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3). Evidently Judas and his brothers rejected Jesus as Messiah (Jn 7:5) until after his resurrection (Acts 1:14). Later, it is thought, Judas (English “Jude”) authored the epistle named Jude.

Show passage in OET: MAT 13:55

OET-RV MAT 13:55

55 Isn’t he the son of Yosef (Joseph), the carpenter? Don’t we know his mother Maria (Mary; Heb. Miryam; Grk. Maria /Mariam) and his brothers Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Yosef and Shim’on (Simon) and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas)?

OET-LV MAT 13:55

55 Is this not the son of _the carpenter?
Not the mother of _him is _being _called Maria/(Miryām), and the brothers of _him, Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ), and Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf), and Simōn, and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh)?

Show passage in OET: MRK 6:3

OET-RV MRK 6:3

3 Isn’t that the carpenter, the son of Maria (Mary; Heb. Miryam; Grk. Maria /Mariam), and the brother of Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Yosef (Joseph) CHECK and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) and Shim’on (Simon)? Don’t his sisters live around here?” And they were offended by his teaching.

OET-LV MRK 6:3

3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of_ the _Maria/(Miryām), and brother of_Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ), and Yōsaʸs/(Yōşēf?
), and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh), and Simōn?
And are not the sisters of _him here with us?
And they _were _being _offended at him.

Show passage in OET: JHN 7:5

OET-RV JHN 7:5

5 (You see, not even Yeshua’s own half-brothers believed that he came from God.)

OET-LV JHN 7:5

5 For/Because not _even the brothers of _him were _believing in him.

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:14

OET-RV ACT 1:14

14 They were united in their ongoing prayers, along with Maria (Mary; Heb. Miryam; Grk. Maria /Mariam) the mother of Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus), and his brothers.

OET-LV ACT 1:14

14 These all were persevering the in _prayer with _one _accord, with the_women and Maria/(Miryām) the mother of_ the _Yaʸsous, and the brothers of _him.

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Show passage in OET: JHN 14:22

OET-RV JHN 14:22

22 Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) (not Yehudah Iskariot) asked, “Master, what’s going on? Why would you reveal yourself to us and not to the whole world?”

OET-LV JHN 14:22

22 Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) not to _him the Iskariōtaʸs is _saying:
master, what has _become, that you _are _going to _be _manifesting yourself to _us, and not to _the world?

Show passage in OET: ACT 1:13

OET-RV ACT 1:13

13 They went into the upstairs room where they were staying—Kefa (Peter; Grk. Petros) and Yohan (John; Grk. Yoannes), Ya’akov (James; Grk. Yakobos) and Andreas, Filippos (Philip) and Toma (Thomas), Bar -Talmay (Bartholomew; Grk. Bartholomaios) and Matay (Matthew; Grk. Matthaios), Ya’akov (son of Halfay (Grk. Halfaios)), Shim’on (Simon) (the Zealot member), and Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) (son of Ya’akov).

OET-LV ACT 1:13

13 And when they _came _in, into the upper _room, they _went _up where they _were staying, which and/both Petros and Yōannaʸs and Yakōbos/(Yaˊₐqoⱱ) and Andreas, Filippos and Thōmas, Bartholomaios and Matthaios, Yakōbos of _Alfaios, and Simōn the Farisaios _zaʸlōtaʸs_group _member, and Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) of _Yakōbos.

Show passage in OET: MAT 10:3

OET-RV MAT 10:3

3 Filippos (Philip) and Bar -Talmay (Bartholomew; Grk. Bartholomaios), Toma (Thomas), and Matay (Matthew; Grk. Matthaios) the tax collector, Ya’akov (nicknamed Thaddaios (Thaddeus), Halfay’s (Grk. Halfaios) son),

OET-LV MAT 10:3

3 Filippos and Bartholomaios, Thōmas and Matthaios the tax _collector, Yakōbos the son of_ the _Alfaios and Thaddaios,

Show passage in OET: MRK 3:18

OET-RV MRK 3:18

18 Andreas, Filippos (Philip), Bar -Talmay (Bartholomew; Grk. Bartholomaios), Matay (Matthew; Grk. Matthaios), Toma (Thomas), Ya’akov Halfay (Grk. Halfaios), Thaddaios (Thaddeus), Shim’on from Kena’an (Canaan),

OET-LV MRK 3:18

18 and Andreas, and Filippos, and Bartholomaios, and Matthaios, and Thōmas, and Yakōbos the son of_ the _Alfaios, and Thaddaios, and Simōn the member _of _Kananitaʸs,

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4. Galilean who led a Jewish revolt against the Romans because of the census taken by Quirinius in AD 6. In Acts 5:37 the Pharisee Gamaliel mentioned Judas as an example of one who unsuccessfully tried to gain the support of the Jewish people. Josephus credited him with founding the Jewish Zealot party, an extreme revolutionary movement that attempted to throw off Roman rule and to reestablish Jewish autonomy (War 2.8.1).

Show passage in OET: ACT 5:37

OET-RV ACT 5:37

37 A bit later on, a Galili man named Yehudah (Judas; Grk. Yudas) became prominent at the time of the census and he attracted people to him. But he also died, and all those who’d been persuaded by him ended up being scattered.

OET-LV ACT 5:37

37 After this, Youdas/(Yəhūdāh) the Galilaios rose _up in the days of _the registration, and drew _away people after him, and _that one perished, and all as _many _as were _being _persuaded by _him were _scattered.

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5. Owner of a house along the street called Straight in Damascus. Here, following his conversion, Saul (Paul) found lodging and had his vision restored by Ananias (Acts 9:11).

Show passage in OET: ACT 9:11

OET-RV ACT 9:11

11 So the master told him, “Get up and go to Yehudah’ (Judas; Grk. Yudas) house in Straight Street where you’ll find a man named Sha’ul (Saul; Grk. Saulos /Saul) from Tarsos. He’s praying right now

OET-LV ACT 9:11

11 And the master said to him:
Having _risen _up, be _gone in the street which being _called Straight, and seek Saulos/(Shāʼūl) by_the_name from _Tarsos in the_house of _Youdas/(Yəhūdāh), because/for see, he _is _praying

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6. Prophet and leader in the early Jerusalem church. Judas, surnamed Barsabbas, was selected with Silas to accompany Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, where they confirmed the Jerusalem Council’s decision regarding the gentile church and subsequently encouraged its believers (Acts 15:22-32). See Joseph #12.

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