Was Judas predestined to betray Jesus? It seems to me that Jesus knew he would. In other words, was this God’s plan?

Judas never betrayed Jesus. Therefore, he was not predestined to betray him.

Judas became a traitor to Jesus when he made a covenant to deliver him to the chief priests, after the devil put it into his heart; but at the last day, Jesus purged the influence of the devil from the heart of Judas, and Jesus himself put it into his heart to fulfill his obligation under the covenant.

In other words, Judas initiated an act of betrayal, but Jesus aborted the act before it came to fruition. Then Jesus chose Judas to hand himself over to the chief priests.

In the end, Judas did not betray Jesus, but he glorified him when he accepted the assignment to hand him over, when he went out into the night to fulfill his obligation under the covenant.

Note 1: Jesus purged the influence of the devil from the heart of Judas when he washed the heel lifted up against him, when he cleansed the one who was not clean.

Note 2: Jesus put it into the heart of Judas to hand him over when he paraphrased Psalms 41:9.

The psalm was not a prediction of the future, and Jesus did not speak of fulfilling it in that sense. Rather, the psalm included the elements of “eating together” and “lifting up the heel against.” By changing the tense of the “eating” verb, Jesus forced a new relationship of the elements.

For the Psalmist, one who ate with him lifted up his heel against him.

For Jesus, one who lifted up his heel against him was one who now, and into the future, would eat (cooperate) with him.

Judas alone understood the words of Jesus and why Jesus had washed his heel.

Note 3: Satan was opposed to the things of God which Jesus said should happen at Jerusalem. Judas overcame this influence of Satan after Satan entered into him the second time, after the sop.

Note 4: Whenever you read the word betray (betrayed, betrayer, etc.) in the canonical gospels, you are reading an erroneous translation of the Greek. The Greek word carried no pejorative connotation which the word “betray” carries. When the word refers to the act of Judas, it should be translated “deliver” or “hand over,”

Note 5: The word “traitor” occurs only in Luke 6:16, which says that Judas, one of the twelve,became a traitor.

Note 6: The son of man came to save that which was lost, to raise him up again at the last day. This was God’s plan for Judas, revealed at Matthew 18:11 and John 6:39.