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| JUDAS-II� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} |
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| [1]������ SEE VOLUME III, HEARTS AFIRE, "Whirlwind" and "Unlikely Crew" | |||||||||||||
| [2]������ SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "Gates of Glory" | |||||||||||||
| [3]������ SEE VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "A New Age Dawning," and VOLUME V, FLOOD GATES, "Eye of the Storm" | |||||||||||||
| [4]������ Feast of Tabernacles | |||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:3-11 - The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery....orders to stone such persons....Jesus...said, "The sinless one among you, go first:� Throw the stone."....Hearing that, they walked away, one after another, beginning with the oldest.� The woman was left alone.� SEE ALSO VOLUME V FLOOD GATES,, "Holier Than Thou" | |||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 8:57-59 - The Jews said, "You're not even fifty years old ~ and Abraham saw you?"� "Believe me," said Jesus, " am who I am long before Abraham was anything." That did it ~ pushed them over the edge.� They picked up rocks to throw at him.� But Jesus slipped away, getting out | |||||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 10:33, 39 - The Jews said, "We're not stoning you for anything good you did, but for what you said - this blasphemy of calling yourself God"....They tried yet again to arrest him, but he slipped through their fingers. | |||||||||||||
| [8]������ SEE VOLUME V, FLOOD GATES, "Portals of Paradise" | |||||||||||||
| [9]������ SEE VOLUME II, DREAM MAKER, "Hesitant Herald" | |||||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 18:35-43 - He came to the outskirts of Jericho.� A blind man was sitting beside the road asking for handouts....Jesus said, "Go ahead ~ see again"....The healing was instant....Everyone in the street joined in, shouting praise to God. | |||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 6:71 - He was referring to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.� [Note:� Carioth/Karioth was in eastern Judea near Jerusalem and Jericho.� The founder of this town was Caleb, assistant to Moses.] | |||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:4, 6 - Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples....not...cared two cents about the poor but because he was a thief.� He was in charge of their common funds, but also embezzled them. | |||||||||||||
| 13]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 12:4-6 - Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, even then getting read to betray him, said, "Why wasn't this oil sold and the money given to the poor?� It would have easily brought three hundred silver pieces."� He said this not because he cared two cents about the poor but because he was a thief.� He was in charge of their common funds, but also embezzled them. | |||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 14:4-6 - Some of the guests became furious among themselves.� "That's criminal!� A sheer waste!� This perfume could have been sold for well over a year's wages and handed out to the poor." They swelled up in anger, nearly bursting with indignation over her.� But Jesus said, "Let her alone.� Why are you giving her a hard time?" | |||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:29-30; REVELATION 21:14 [NIV] - "And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may...sit on thrones"....The wall was set on twelve foundations, the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them. | |||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, ISAIAH 14:12-15 �How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!� How you are cut down to the ground ~ mighty though you were against the nations of the world.� For you said to yourself, "I will ascend to heaven and rule the angels.� I will take the highest throne.� I will preside on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north.� I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High." | |||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 10:1 [NIV] - He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. | |||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 11:49-53 - Then one of them ~ it was Caiaphas, the designated Chief Priest that year ~ spoke up, "Don't you know anything?� Can't you see that it's to our advantage that one man dies for the people rather than the whole nation be destroyed?...From that day on, they plotting to kill Jesus. | |||||||||||||
| [19]����� A "piece of silver" was the worth about $4.� According to Matthew 20:2, a day's wages was 1 denarius or 35 cents.� Therefore, one piece of silver would be worth 11-1/2 days wages.� Thirty pieces of silver was worth $120 or 342 days wages.� With 104 days taken off on weekends during the year, that leaves 238 working days in a year.� So the 30 pieces of silver would be nearly a year-and-a-half's wages.� If today's annual income averages $35,000, Judas' bribe would be valued at about $50,000. | |||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 22:1-6 - The Feast of Unleavened Bread, also called Passover, drew near.� The high priests and religion scholars were looking for a way to do away with Jesus but, fearful of the people, they were also looking for a way to cover their tracks.� That's when Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot.� He was one of the Twelve.� Leaving the others, he conferred with the high priests and the Temple guards about how he might betray Jesus to them.� They couldn't believe their good luck and agreed to pay him well.� He gave them his word and started looking for a way to betray Jesus, but out of sight of the crowd. | |||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 13:21-30 - Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why.� "One of you is going to betray me....The one to whom I give this crust of bread after I've dipped it."� Then he dipped the crust and gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot.� As soon as the bread was in his hand, Satan entered him.� "What you must do," said Jesus, "Go.� Do it and get it over with"....Judas, with the piece of bread, left.� It was night. | |||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:2 - Judas, his betrayer, knew the place because Jesus and his disciples went there often. | |||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 18:2-3 - So Judas led the way to the garden, and the Roman soldiers and police sent by the high priests and Pharisees followed.� They arrived there with lanterns and torches and swords. | |||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 27:3-4 - Judas, the one who betrayed him, realized that Jesus was doomed.� Overcome with remorse, he gave back the thirty silver coins to the high priests, saying, "I've sinned.� I've betrayed an innocent man."� They said, "What do we care?� That's your problem." Judas threw the silver coins into the Temple and left. | |||||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, REVELATION 12:8-10b [LIVING BIBLE VERSION] - And the Dragon lost the battle and was forced from heaven...the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world...."the Accuser of our brothers has been thrown down from heaven onto earth - he accused them day and night before our God." | |||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, ZECHARIAH 11:12-16 [PREDICTED ABOUT 500 YEARS BEFORE JESUS' BIRTH] - "If you like, give me my pay, whatever I am worth; but only if you want to."� So they counted out thirty little silver coins as my wages.� And the Lord told me, "Use it to buy a field from the pottery makers....So I took the thirty coins and threw them into the Temple for the pottery makers...." "This illustrates how I will give this nation a shepherd who will not care for the dying ones." | |||||||||||||