The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play

by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Who couldn’t want to appeal “eternal damnation”?

Someone who was aware of his own self-inflicted erosion of the capacity to be filled by Grace … Someone too prideful to ask for forgiveness even in the face of the fiery furnace. Or maybe, he don’t bother askin‘, ’uz he knows he don’t deserve it!

Your Honor, the only person who needs forgiveness is the one who...

I think, personally, that Judas did what he did to help Jesus realize his destiny and fulfill his mission.

The difference, I posit, between you and Judas Iscariot is that you accepted that you were created in God’s Image, whereas Judas Iscariot—he sought to create God into his own image—God as earthly avenger, which was not God’s way.