Bargain of Judas

The Bargain of Judas is a biblical episode related to the life of Jesus which is recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew 26:14–16, Mark 14:10–11 and Luke 22:1–6.

It relates how Judas Iscariot made a bargain with the Jewish chief priests to betray Jesus.

Luke's Gospel states that Satan entered Judas to prompt him for the bargain: Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

The prophetic text of Zechariah 11:12, in most English translations, uses the word "weighed": In the New Testament Jesus is later betrayed in the Kiss of Judas incident.

The Bargain of Judas is considered one of the seven key episodes which relate to the events of the week of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Judas making a bargain with the priests, depicted by Duccio , early 14th century
Bargain of Judas, fresco by Lippo Memmi , 14th century