In Reply to: One question I have posted by Observer on April 10, 2006 at 22:43:16:
If there was a secret conversation between Judas and Jesus, both of whom died very soon afterward, to whom was this story told and how was it passed on? Some might suggest by Judas' friends or family. But if Jesus did not even share this secret teaching with the twelve whom he had chosen to be with him for nearly three years, why would Judas just a few days or hours later share it with his even more unenlightened outsiders like his family or friends?
Further, if Judas truly was the uniquely enlightened figure the Gospel of Judas suggests and if he was acting directly on Jesus' instructions, why would he have committed suicide just a few hours later (assuming of course that he did, and did not end up marrying Mary Magdalene's cousin before heading to India where he and Jesus spent the rest of their days)?
But perhaps the biggest question is this. If all Jesus needed was to be freed from his mortal body, why use Judas? Why not just hand himself over or throw himself sans angels from the Temple (as in the Temptation)? Why the charade of a betrayal at all? Indeed, just how reasonable is it to suppose that after spending three years with Jesus the only one of his followers who really knew what was going on was Judas? Not very.