Posted on 03/02/2026 6:57:42 PM PST by BEJ
I have an outline for an original musical called "Judas Iscariot the Musical." Possible subtitle "Can We Escape Hell?" If you have any ideas on it, let me know.
1. Jesus dies a horrible death on the Cross, goes to Hell (Apostle’s Creed), and can't remember who he is. He says, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Something that is also a reference to a passage in the Psalms.
2. He meets Judas in Hell, who helps him remember that he is not just a man but the Messiah, the Savior.
3. Judas is actually a good guy who betrayed Jesus -- not for the money, but because he loved Mary Magdalene. He didn’t think they would kill Jesus.
4. Mary only had eyes for Jesus -- so it's a love triangle. Mary’s mother preferred Judas to Jesus for her daughter. Judas was a rich man on earth and has a chariot.
5. There are also devils and demons in Hell. They look like Hell’s Angels bikers who have Egyptian pyramids. One is called Mephistopheles, and he wants Judas to keep Jesus in confusion in Hell so that he doesn’t remember his identity as the Messiah. If Jesus learns his identity, he would rise out of Hell.
6. Mephistopheles tempts Judas by offering him Mary. Judas can have his love, Mary, in Hell for eternity if he keeps Jesus confused.
7. Judas is now facing the same temptation of betraying Jesus that he felt on earth.
8. There are flashbacks to the earth, and Jesus eventually regains his memory with Judas' help.
9. Jesus forgives Judas, and they both ascend from Hell (a happy ending). So yes, you can escape Hell.
The Bible doesn’t tell you much of what happened in Hell. It is like Swiss Cheese with big holes in it. The holes allow you to fill in the details with what you think might have happened. This musical will be a lavish spectacle, a feast for the eyes! When does a musical take place in Hell? It could also be seen as the sequel to Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Jesus ‘got help’ carrying the cross
If we couldn’t add to or take away from the Bible, then we wouldn’t have denominations would we?
Well, if we humans had perfect knowledge, I guess we wouldn’t be coming up with these what if questions
“What IF” ?
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DO You know that ‘IF’ is the center of the word ‘life’ ?
The point I was making was that Jesus didn’t need any help resurrecting. Only He alone could do that.
Interesting point on religion.
Thank you for your concern. You can see clearly. I take heed in your word. All the best!
I’ve wanted to do a Character study on those that died on a Tree on That Day.
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All Four of Them.
okaaayyy.....
What have you been smoking?
What is not said does NOT give anyone liberty to fabricate outright lies about Jesus.
Do so at your own risk.
And ‘LIVE’ is evil backwards.
I wasn’t aware that Judas’ death day was the same...
Did Jesus really say?
Matthew 27:3-11
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¶ Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
6 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.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, ‖‖ Or, whom they bought of the children of Israel. whom they of the children of Israel did value;
10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
11 ¶ And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
It appears, from the text, that Judas did, indeed, kill himself BEFORE Jesus' own death.
How long afterward THE FOLLOWING happened is not indicated...
ACTS 1:15-20
15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,[d] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.”
18 (With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. 19 Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)
20 “For,” said Peter, “it is written in the Book of Psalms:
“‘May his place be deserted;
let there be no one to dwell in it,’[e]
and,
“‘May another take his place of leadership.’[f]
So - who REALLY 'bought the field'? Chief priests or Judas?
COPILOT: The short version is that both Judas and the chief priests can be said to have “bought the farm”—but in different senses, and the New Testament preserves both angles. The tension you’re noticing is real, ancient, and well‑discussed.
Matthew 27:6–8 is very explicit:
Judas throws the 30 pieces of silver back into the temple.
The priests say the money is “blood money” and can’t go into the treasury.
They use it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
That field becomes known as Akeldama (“Field of Blood”).
So in Matthew’s telling, the priests are the ones who make the purchase.
Acts 1:18 describes Judas this way:
“This man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness…”
Then it describes his gruesome death there.
So Acts attributes the acquisition to Judas, even though he never physically bought anything.
Scholars and early interpreters have long noted that the two accounts aren’t contradictory once you understand agency and legal attribution:
Even though he threw the silver back, it was still considered his—the priests refused to put it in the treasury because it was “blood money.” So any purchase made with it could be attributed to him.
They were the ones who actually went out and purchased the field.
A minority view (but historically attested) argues Judas may have acquired a field earlier, and the priests later bought a different one.
But the mainstream understanding is simpler:
Judas bought it in the sense of responsibility. The priests bought it in the sense of action.
Both statements are true depending on which angle you emphasize.
The field becomes associated with death, blood, and Judas’s fate. So when you ask “who really bought the farm?” the biblical answer is:
Judas bought it morally and financially.
The chief priests bought it legally and practically.
Both perspectives are preserved because each writer is making a different theological point.
If you give away tickets I won’t go, so there’s that.
“To LIVE Is Christ
To die is Gain”
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Philipians 1:21
Seems most likely...
Judas hung himself That Day.
I’ve seen nothing one way or the
Other...I’m open to be corrected.
Cheif Priests OR Judas !?!
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Interesting
It Is Purim....
Not that it’s relevant to Who bought ‘It’.
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My original “Four Men died on a Tree..”
‘Within a relatively close time Frame.’
(I’m thinking)...
Jesus
Good Theif
Bad Theif
Theif and ...Judas.
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