The Judas Tree (ballet) official website, this ballet is about "betrayal and guilt, individual and communal". The plot references the biblical betrayal story of the Kiss of Judas, which leads directly to the arrest of Jesus and his later crucifixion. In this same source it is said that MacMillan was also thinking of contemporary "instances of betrayal, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989." Since the protesting students demanding democratic reforms were taken down by the Chinese army, "in spite of politicians’ assurances that there would be no violence". The Royal Ballet website describes it like this: "The Judas Tree is MacMillan's final
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament indicates that Jesus will be with the faithful to the end of the age. The title Christ used in the English language is from the Greek ("Kristos"), via the Latin "Christus". It means "anointed one". The Greek is a loan translation of the Hebrew "mashiaħ" (מָשִׁיחַ) or Aramaic "mshiħa" (מְשִׁיחָא), from which we derive the English word Messiah. Christ has now become a name, one part of the name "Jesus Christ", but originally it was a title (the Messiah) and not a name; however its use in "Christ Jesus" is a title. In the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible