

The priests used the money to buy a field to bury strangers in, which was called the " Field of Blood" because it had been bought with blood money. According to Matthew 27:1–10, after learning that Jesus was to be crucified, Judas attempted to return the money he had been paid for his betrayal to the chief priests and committed suicide by hanging. The Gospel of Luke 22:3 and the Gospel of John 13:27 suggest that he was possessed by Satan. The Gospel of Matthew 26:15 states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver.

The Gospel of Mark gives no motive for Judas's betrayal, but does present Jesus predicting it at the Last Supper, an event also described in all the other gospels. His name is often used synonymously with betrayal or treason. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him and addressing him as " rabbi" to reveal his identity in the darkness to the crowd who had come to arrest him. 33 AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

The Kiss of Judas (between 13) by Giotto di Bondone depicts Judas' identifying kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane
