She kissed him goodnight, knowing he wouldn't remember her tomorrow.

No, no, no. It's not how it ends.

HE kissed him GOODBYE, knowing HE wouldn't see him again.

And he did not. Judas' remorse was heavier than the silver collected, he did not even covet afterwards, that he mustered all his courage to pay with his own life for the treachery on the MAN he realized he had loved the most in his life.

That MAN was Jesus. That MAN was the most intellectually honest, the most honorable, the most humble, the most generous person Judas had ever met.

Just a night before, Judas and Jesus met with their dear friends at the passover dinner table. There were twelve disciples gathered around Jesus. Together they blessed and shared bread and wine with Jesus as the last memoir of them meeting together, for the MAN was getting ready for what was inevitable. For the MAN recognized the man-made rules established by greed, jealousy, injustice, ruthlessness, and knew it was going to be their LAST SUPPER.

But there were many occasions to meet with Jesus before that, when the disciples would learn and practice the teachings of the ANOINTED ONE.

For he was anointed two days before the LAST SUPPER. Mary, Martha's and Lazarus' sister, who would always look forward meeting and devouring with her whole heart what Jesus would teach, brought the most expensive ointment she had to rub on HIS body, the body which was going to be put under lots of agony before long. Mary did not care about the high value of the ointment that could be instead saved or sold to feed the poor, as suggested by the disciples and Judas, for her purehearted action stressed the TRUE VALUE of Jesus Christ. Unlike Mary, the poor disciples neglected to understand that:

"The poor [they] have always to care for; but [they] [would] not always have [HIM]. In annointing [HIM], she prepared [HIM] for [HIS] burial." (Matthew 26: 12)

For there is a difference between price and value. But the disciples failed to understand that, for their hearts at that time were howbeit hardened and homed on the materiality of this world, rather than on the benefit of having Jesus in their hearts, especially that their hearts were not fully equipped for not having HIM around.

Because, they were like little children who did not understand everything Jesus was telling them, but despite that, they did not feel humiliated to ask HIM for clarification if they did not. For HE once said:

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds" (Matthew 7: 7-8)

This is why, Judas and his fellow disciples had been revelling in being part of Jesus' mission to minister the lost sheep of Israel.

And to teach them about mere luxury.

The last mere luxury lessons taught were as such:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! Ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and uncleanness. Even if, on the outside, you appear righteous to others, inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."

For the lost sheep of Israel would "[teach] the commandments of men as doctrines," regard their own outward appearances, and man-made standards built on favoritism and bigotry:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees. Hypocrites! Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, but ye have ignored the weightier matters of the law; judgment, mercy, and faith. Ye blind guides who strain from your drink a gnat and swallow a camel." (Matthew 23: 23-24)

"They bind heavy burdens, grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders. But they, themselves, will not even lay so much as a finger on one of them. All their works they do for show to other men. They love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues. They like greetings in the markets and to be called out to, Rabbi, Rabbi." (Matthew 23: 4)

RATHER THAN ON THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENTS:

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments rests all the law and the prophets." (Matthew 22: 37)

And that was after Jesus went in the synagogue in Jerusalem to throw out all the tradesmen present inside turning the house of prayer into "a den of thieves," for this is how profane the lost sheep had become.

And that was after Jesus for the first time entrusted Judas and the remaining eleven apostles and confided them HIS HOLY talent to "cast out unclean spirits and to heal all manner of sickness and disease" (Matthew 10: 1)

For by that time they already knew:

 "No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matthew 6: 24)

And that was after young Jesus, at twelve, for the first time relinquished HIS own parents and delighted in the Jerusalem Temple:

"sitting in the midst of the doctors, listening to them and asking them questions. Those who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers."(Luke 2: 46-47)

not realizing how worried his mother must have been having detected HE was not in the caravan, as HE was expected to; having protected HIM from Herod who hungered for Jesus' slaying; having given BIRTH TO HIM.

pic. Sweet Baby Jesus by Greg Collins

"God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish, but have everlasting life"

 (John 3: 16)

AND THAT'S HOW IT BEGINS.

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

(John 3: 3)

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