{"id":509,"date":"2014-12-07T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T04:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-12-07T04:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T04:14:26","slug":"judas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/judas\/","title":{"rendered":"Judas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/Judas.pdf\">a tricky play<\/a> to devise, because the Gospel passage reports, in rapid fire fashion, three major events already narrated in much greater detail in other Gospel passages (and already covered in three other plays): the baptism of Jesus, the temptation of Jesus, and the arrest of John the Baptist. Then I noticed that when I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/tempted\">the play about the temptation of Jesus<\/a>, I never actually said what the three temptations were. (Instead, I showed various members of the group being tempted in different ways.) I also realized that there was no Gospel account of Judas actually joining the disciples. So then my way was clear: I would write a play about Judas finally joining the group, and include within it an account of the three temptations of Jesus.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I think that combination turned out well. The encounter between Jesus and Judas is itself a kind of testing: each of them is trying to evaluate the other. And Judas&#8217; reactions, especially to the third temptation, foreshadow the temptation he&#8217;ll face later in his story. Finally, I also got a chance to do more questioning of the handling of many OT passages in the Gospels!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a tricky play to devise, because the Gospel passage reports, in rapid fire fashion, three major events already narrated in much greater detail&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/judas\/\" title=\"Judas\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}