Judas waited for the opportunity.

He prepared.

He planned.

He thought it all through.

He did not waver when Jesus pointed it out, giving him a chance to change his mind.

He chose deliberately to muzzle his deepest hearts’ affections.

He was convinced, mostly by himself, that he is right, that he has the right, and that everyone will see that, sooner or later.

To change the mindset to believe a lie is a journey to trust the inconceivable until it becomes probable.

His ultimate issue was about inability to apologize. He couldn’t admit he was wrong. He did not want to see it. He’d rather go with his individual conviction, comfortable enough to swallow and align his mind to. Pride in a form of excuse.

Judas has excuses.

Nuremberg Nazis had explanations.

Trump and Biden have excuses.

Killers have explanations.

Clergy has excuses.

Jesus had to take all of it.

Gethsemane was His humanity bleeding into His divinity.

Lectio on: “The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.”