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The Bible clearly indicates that Judas was not saved. Jesus himself said of Judas, "The Son of Man is indeed going, as it is written of him, but woe to that man for whom the Son of Man is betrayed! "(Matthew 26.24). Here we give ourselves lamente an image of the sovereignty of God and the will of man working hand in hand. God had decided, from the past tense, that Christ would be betrayed by Judas, die on the Cross for our sins and be resurrected. This is what Jesus meant when he said he would go "as it is written of him." Nothing could stop God's plan to provide salvation for humanity.
Judas acted out of his own free will. Jesus said he was a devil.
(John 6:70-71 NIV) Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" {71} (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
He also stole money from Jesus.
(John 12:4-6 NIV) But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, {5} "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages." {6} He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
Judas never called Jesus "Lord". He always called him "rabbi" or "teacher".
(Matthew 26:49 NIV) Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. It was prophesied:
(Zechariah 11:12-13 NIV) I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. {13} And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"--the handsome price at which they priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.
(Matthew 27:9-10 NIV) Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel, {10} and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."