A LESSON OF FAITH

My father and paternal grandfather were both ministers, when I was very young, I spent a lot of time listening to them and others discussing the Scriptures. Judas',s name would come up, and I could not understand why Judas would betray Jesus for any amount of money and why so many people viewed him as a villain. Judas must have known he would have been put to death by many of Jesus',s followers who loved him very much. As time went by and I was reading the Bible on my own, I discovered that Judas was Jesus',s friend and was only doing what Jesus asked him to do. This book, A Lesson in Faith, was written to emphasize the utmost importance of having faith in what Jesus said. On numerous occasions, the priest, scribes, and elders consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety and kill him, so there was really no reason for betrayal (Matt. 26