St. Peter is the father of Judas.
Judas is the son of St. Peter.
St. Peter was a fisherman who turned to God after his wife died an agonizing death.
Judas was a boy who turned away from God after his mother died an agonizing death.
St. Peter became a disciple of Jesus, the son of God, and his gospel, the kingdom of heaven is within grasp, and was chosen to be numbered among the Twelve.
Judas wanted nothing to do with God (you will be my God again, when again I have my mother) and was found among the disciples of Jesus only as a tag along of his father and uncle, but was chosen to be numbered among the twelve as the errand boy for the group.
St. Peter was the first among the Twelve and became the last to follow Jesus.
Judas was the last and the least among the Twelve and became the first to follow Jesus.
St. Peter was not lost and needed only an intercessory prayer by Jesus in order to become his follower.
Judas was lost and needed to be raised up again by Jesus at the last day in order to become his follower.
St. Peter was clean and did not need Jesus to wash his feet for cleanliness, but he and the ten needed to let him wash them so Jesus could keep private his response to the trespass of Judas. That was their part with Jesus in the washing. (Their puzzlement was why he was washing their feet, not why he was washing Judas’s feet.)
Judas was not clean and needed Jesus to wash his heel for cleanliness (he had lifted it up against him).
St. Peter continued to harbor a spirit of opposition to the handing over of Jesus (the hardheadedness upon which Jesus would build his church), even after Jesus rebuked him explicitly for that spirit, until the resurrected Jesus rebuked him for thinking that spirit represented a greater love for Jesus. Jesus did not reveal to St. Peter beforehand that he chose his son, the errand boy, to hand him over.
Judas made a covenant to hand over Jesus, in a spirit of spitefulness, after the devil put it into his heart, but/and he became opposed to handing him over after Jesus washed clean this trespass (he washed the heel lifted up against him). But then Jesus revealed to Judas alone that he chose him to hand him over, and Judas overcame the spirit which plagued St. Peter and became the first to follow Jesus. In doing so, he glorified Jesus (did the work he gave him) as Jesus glorified his Father (did the work He gave him).
St. Peter is the rock upon which Jesus built his church.
Judas is he out of whose belly the rivers of living water flow.
I submit these novel ideas only in my own name, to challenge others to rethink what they think they know.
