Now someone betrayed Ann Frank when she was in hiding in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. As a result her entire family was sent to the concentration camps for execution.
But I didn't get the sense that Jesus was in hiding. He wanted a confrontation with the powers that be (especiallly the Temple Priests). If he wanted to avoid the confrontation He could have left the Holy City, which He did not do.
Anne wasn't God out on a mission to teach.
"I didn't get the sense that Jesus was in hiding."
Obviously He wasn't hiding. He was just impossible to find for a clandestine snatch and grab. Judas wanted to push the matter, that's why he betrayed Jesus.
"He wanted a confrontation with the powers that be (especiallly the Temple Priests). ..."Maybe the reason he didn't try to stop Judas from telling his whereabouts is because he had told Judas to do so."
Then He would have confronted them on His own. God doesn't decieve.
"If he wanted to avoid the confrontation He could have left the Holy City"
He was here to teach, not to confront.
"The truth is that Peter denied Jesus three times, to save his own skin. Peter is now considered a Saint for that treachery."
Peter acted out of fright. His was not an act of treachery, but one of self preservaiton out of paralyzing fear. There was no change in his heart about his Lord and the Holy Spirit. what was in his heart, that never changed, was why he is called a saint. No act of treachery counts towards sainthood.
Judas's act was an act of treachery. He turned over God's firstborn, His right hand, to be tortured and killed after the Passover meal. That was done in attempt to force God's hand against His will. Judas rejected the Holy Spirit. A living Spirit, that he had know and dwelt with.
" If there is forgiveness for Peter, shouldn't Judas be forgiven as well?"
Matthew 12:32
"Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come."
Matthew 26:24
"The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."