Judas Iscariot Helen Edmundson, Judas is played by Tahar Rahim. Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot (died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Disciples of Jesus Christ. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him and addressing him as "Rabbi" to reveal his identity to the crowd who had come to arrest him. His name is often used synonymously with betrayal or treason. Judas's epithet "Iscariot" most likely means he came from the village of Kerioth, but this explanation is not universally accepted and many other possibilities have
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament and titles of Jesus in the Bible are listed in Cruden's Concordance, first published in 1737, and continuously in print ever since. The first index of the book (following the royal dedications and author's preface) is entitled "A collection of the Names and Titles given to Jesus Christ", with 198 names listed, each accompanied by a biblical reference. There have been a number of proposals as to the origin and etymological origin of the name Jesus (cf. ). The name is related to the Hebrew form [Yehoshua`] Joshua, which is a theophoric name first mentioned within the Biblical tradition in