Judas was framed!
Have a look at this story in The Washington Post. It begins:
"The National Geographic Society today released the first modern translation of the ancient "Gospel of Judas," which says that the most reviled villain in Christian history was simply doing his master's bidding when he betrayed Jesus.
"The 2nd century text, denounced as heresy 1,700 years ago by orthodox Christian clergy, describes conversations between Jesus and Judas Iscariot during the week before the Jewish holiday of Passover in which Jesus tells Judas "secrets no other person has ever seen.' "
Then have a look at the document on The National Geogrpahic Society's Web site.
I am passing this along before forming any sort of opinion about it. (So I hope you didn't take the healdine of this article seriously.) In general, I think the non-canonical gospels are historically interesting, but not theologically compelling. And I think that all claims to secret knowledge, especially secret knowledge of God, are suspect.
