ohn 12:3-6

Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

  But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected,  "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages. "  He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.


St. John also wrote in the third chapter, verse 19: “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.”

While it does not say that Judas held the rope of the donkey because he didn’t want to have to pay for it if it were lost, let’s assume he did. In a few days he would go to the High Priest and sell Jesus into their hands for 30 pieces of silver, no doubt in the dark of night.

Before Jesus would be hung on the cross, Judas would hang himself from a tree. 

St. Paul wrote in Gal. 3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."

How strange that both Jesus and Judas were cursed. Jesus, however, became a curse for us by taking our sins upon himself. Judas, on the other hand, because of his great guilt brought a curse on himself by rejecting the forgiveness he had seen Christ offer to many. 

So sad. His unbelieving heart rejected God’s grace.