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Was Judas’ Kiss Messianic?
Judas most infamously kissed Jesus in the garden. Why was this kiss so horrendously sinful and anti-scriptural?
1. It was a sign identifying Jesus as the one. This led to Jesus arrest and death.
2. It was through a method of showing relationship, even friendship. This makes it a hypocritical act.
Now takes those two marks of Judas’ kiss, and go back in time. Your version might read “Pay homage” or something similar. That exhortation advocates a genuine expression of allegiance and warns against insincerity. However, when swearing allegiance, vassal kings would sometimes do so insincerely, with the intent of rebelling at some later date.
What passage am I wanting you to go back in time and connect Judas to? It begins with plotting betrayal, “Why do the nations rage? And the peoples plot in vain?” And it ends with this admonition, “Pay homage to” or more literally, “Kiss the Son” (Psalm 2:1,12). Instead of kissing the Son in submission and recognition of Jesus’s divine and regal position, Judas kissed the Son in hypocrisy and betrayal. The kiss in the garden is a mockery of the kiss of Psalm 2.
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