The Real Story of Judas Iscariot — What History Says

The Real Story of Judas Iscariot — What History Says No one knows for certain where the name Iscariot comes from. No one knows for certain how he died. And no one knows for certain why a man who walked with Jesus for three years sold him for the price of a slave. This is what history, archaeology, and the Bible actually say about Judas Iscariot — the only apostle missing from our last video, and the most misunderstood man in the New Testament. ⏱️ CHAPTERS: 0:00 – The Three Mysteries of Judas 1:16 – Why You're Here (and Why It Matters) 1:55 – The Name: Why Was He the Only Non-Galilean? 3:00 – Judas the Treasurer (and the Thief) 3:58 – Jesus Knew From the Beginning 5:58 – The Thirty Pieces of Silver 7:02 – Zechariah's 500-Year-Old Prophecy 7:55 – Why Did Judas Really Do It? 8:43 – Gethsemane and the Kiss 10:27 – Quick Break 10:45 – How Did Judas Die? Two Stories That Don't Match 13:03 – Akeldama: The Field of Blood (Still There Today) 13:57 – The Eleven Choose Matthias 14:25 – Peter vs Judas: The Difference That Matters 16:25 – The Lesson No One Wants to Hear 17:36 – Where Will You Take Your Sorrow? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 SOURCES & REFERENCES • The Bible — Matthew 26-27, John 6 & 12-13, Luke 22, Acts 1, Psalm 41:9, Zechariah 11:12-13, Exodus 21:32, 2 Corinthians 7:10 • Early Church Historians — Eusebius (preserving Hegesippus), Origen • Archaeological site of Akeldama, Valley of Hinnom, Jerusalem • Cross-referenced with the previous video on the 12 Apostles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 WATCH NEXT: The 12 Apostles After the Resurrection — What Happened to Each One 👉   • What Happened to All 12 Apostles After the...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe to Scripture Unlocked for weekly deep-dives into the Bible's most misunderstood stories: 👉 @ScriptureUnlocked 📧 Contact & Partnerships: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If this video opened something up for you, share it with someone who needs to hear it. That is genuinely how this channel grows. Thank you for being here. #JudasIscariot #BibleHistory #ChristianTeaching #ScriptureUnlocked