Al-Qaryatayn, Palestine

Yes.

Because Judas was from Kerioth and the rest of them were from Galilee.

Judas was from a different place.

So like maybe Judas was maybe an Ashanti and the rest of them were Fantis.

The first page is right there.

Open your loyalty book and see.

Judas was from Kerioth.

And, uh, what is his name? The rest of the- Peter ...

The, you know, how...

You know, the idea is how could Jesus choose such a person as his apostle, as one of the 12, when, when he was such a disreputable individual? He was the only one from Judea, from, from Iscariot or Kerioth.

And, you know, it's rather interesting how, you know, the, in, in works like s- Schoenfeld's "The Passover Plot," that they, they, they kind of think of Judas as, as being Kind of a hero in, in some way.

You know, he, he wants to get Jesus to go against the chief priests and the, and the Romans and so on, and so he kind of puts him into a situation like this.

What does that mean? Well, there's some debate between a scholarship on this.

It's debated what the etymology of that word is, but I think the most reasonable inference, and probably the one that's probably the most accepted by those who are examining this, is that it means something akin to man of Kerioth.

So that means that if that was the case, Judas Iscariot, would be the one person in the 12 who's not a Galilean.

He would be from Judea, a Judean in the midst of Galileans.

But I think that's so speculative.

The best inference is that it simply means the region where he came from.

He's a man of Kerioth.

And if that's the case, it does put him at odds with the rest of the group because he's the one outsider.

Wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath, and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon, and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.

Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the Lord, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.