Judas Iscariot

Judas Iscariot (Hebrew: יהודה איש־קריות‎, Yehuda, Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qrayyôṯ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for his kiss and betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief Sanhedrin priests for a ransom of 30 pieces of silver. Judas was the first of the Twelve Apostles to die by suicide of self-strangulation on a tree. The Roman Catholic Church maintains that as a Son of Perdition, Judas did not merit the salvation of Jesus Christ due to his betrayal and suicide, and was sent to eternally suffer in Hell. In the Greek New Testament, Judas is called Ιούδας Ισκάριωθ and Ισκαριώτης . "Judas" (spelled "Ioudas" in ancient Greek and "Iudas" in Latin, pronounced yudas in both) is the Greek form...