Obviously the easy answer was that he was greedy but it has to be deeper than that right? He betrayed Jesus for only 30 pieces of silver which. Some scholars have proposed different interpretations, with the low end being around $90 and the high end being closer to $450. Thats how much he sold Jesus for. So was he so greedy he sold him out for some money? Was he underwhelmed by the fact that Jesus didn't come to take down the Romans? Or Satan simply took control of him and it was a necessary evil to fulfill the prophecy? Do you have any theories?
It’s fulfillment of prophecy it’s always fulfillment of prophecy what God said beforehand coming to pass
“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.
So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto me,
Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.”
Zechariah 11:12-13 KJV
“Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.”
Matthew 26:14-16 KJV
“And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Zechariah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.”
Matthew 27:5-10 KJV
In the ot God was doing this
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and
new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Isaiah 42:9 KJV
The new testement is when all those things began to come to pass and be fuflilled
judas betrayed Jesus because it was written that one of his disciples would betray him God foreknew these things and foretold them
“Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and
one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
John 6:70-71 KJV
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and
none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.”
John 17:12
“And Jesus saith unto them,
All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.”
Mark 14:27
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.”
Zechariah 13:7 KJV
The New Testament is what god foretold in the ot coming to pass it’s just what God said would happen happening