@James_Dixon @ChristiJunior @Goalkeeper @matty @Frondeur

>But Judas was no more guilty than the Pharisees who paid him, which is one of two reasons I don't accept that as the case. The other being what Jesus told Pilate in John 19:11.

I mean, youre disregarding what peter said in acts, he said that the Israelite leaders were also ignorant. I dont believe that the chief priests (who weren't pharisees but were probably saducees, I could be wrong though) who paid judas were quite as guilty as he, and i dont think many commentators would argue this, judas was unique in his degree of guilt and of sin, though they were certainly guilty also. judas intimately knew jesus and was treated with divine love by him. he had no excuses.

>My statement is that they had no idea Jesus was the Son of God.

neither did the sanhedrin. jesus more or less told him he was in the synoptics, but they didnt believe and they werent in the intimate position judas was in to know this. I still think this constitutes ignorance.

>You are judging evil by modern standards. He was a man of his time and a pagan.

murdering worshippers of God and mixing the blood of sacrifices with their blood is evil, period. its strange of a christian to be morally relativist here.

>Most jews accepted Christ after the resurrection. The Pharisees and their ilk didn't.

many many hellenized jews converted to christianity, actually, including many pharisees.