The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a play by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis first staged Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on March 2, 2005 directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" tells the story of a court case over the ultimate fate of Judas Iscariot. The play uses flashbacks to an imagined childhood, and lawyers who call for the testimonies of such witnesses as Mother Teresa, Caiaphas, Saint Monica, Sigmund Freud, and Satan. The original production premiered Off-Broadway in a Labyrinth Theatre Company production at the Public Theatre
Agony in the Garden During his agony as he prayed, "his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground" (). At the conclusion of the narrative, Jesus accepts that the hour has come for him to be betrayed. In Roman Catholic tradition, the Agony in the Garden is the first Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary and the of the Scriptural Way of The Cross. Catholic tradition includes specific prayers and devotions as acts of reparation for the sufferings of Jesus during His Agony and Passion. These Acts of Reparation to Jesus Christ do not involve a petition for