Through the Year with The Urantia Book: Week 25 of Year 4 "The Betrayer"

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For adult study: "The Betrayer"

The story summary and questions were written in a way that makes it possible to use a New Testament reference in place of the Urantia reference. A selected chapter from a 1932 book, Treasure-House of the Living Religions, supports a spiritual theme that is found within the story. Children will use a one page handout that includes a coloring picture.

Paper 179:4
The Urantia Book

Judas went out into the night

Students may read Paper 179:4

All twelve apostles ate the Passover meal with Jesus on the night before he died. One of the apostles, however, had made a secret plan to betray Jesus later that evening. Jesus knew what Judas Iscariot had decided to do. During the meal, Jesus told the apostles that one of them would soon betray him. The startled apostles asked, “Is it I?” Even Judas asked this. Then, Jesus told Judas, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” So, Judas left. “And it was night.”

Discussion Questions

Judas had agreed to help the chief priests arrest Jesus. What does it mean to betray someone? Why do you think Judas betrayed Jesus? The Book of Proverbs says, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”