Judas Quotes in King of Kings (1961)

Judas: Take me with you, Rabbi.

Jesus: Come.

Judas: No, No! Leave us alone!

Comicus: All right, all right! Jesus!

Jesus: Yes?

Comicus: What?

Jesus: What?

Comicus: What?

Jesus: Yes?

Comicus: Jesus!

Jesus: Yes?

Comicus: What?

Jesus: What?

Comicus: You said what.

Jesus: Yes?

Comicus: Nothing.

Judas: I have sinned, betrayed innocent blood. Take the money back! I don't want it!

Caiphas: If you believe you have betrayed innocent blood, that is your affair. Now, take the money... and go.

Judas: I remember when this whole thing began; no talk of God then, we called you a man! And, believe me, my admiration for you hasn't died. But every word you say today gets twisted round some other way; and they'll hurt you if they think you've lied!

Judas: All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds.

Judas: Every time I look at you I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand? You'd've managed better if you'd had a plan. Now why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.

Judas: On Thursday night, you'll find him where you want him, far from the crowd in the garden of Gethsemane...

Choir: Well done, Judas... Good old Judas...

Judas: You sad pathetic man! See where you've brought us to? Our ideals die around us, and all because of you!

Judas: My mind... is in darkness! My God... God, I'm sick! I've been used! And you knew! You knew all the time! God, I will never know why you chose me for your crime! Your foul, bloody crime! My God, you have murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered...

[hangs himself]

Choir: Poor old Judas... So long, Judas.

Judas: Tell me what you think about your friends at the top! Who, do you think, besides yourself was pick of the crop? Buddha, was he where it's at? Is he where you are? Could Mohammed move a mountain, or was that just PR?

Judas: [to Jesus] To think I admired you! Well, now I despise you!

Judas: Hey woman, your fine ointment, brand-new and expensive, should have been saved for the poor. Why has it been wasted? We could've raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more than your feet and hair.

Judas: I have no thought at all about my own reward, I really didn't come here on my own accord. Just don't say I'm damned for all time.

Judas: You beat him so hard that he was bent and lame; and I know who everybody's gonna blame! I don't believe he knows I acted for our good! I'd save him all this suffering if I could! Don't believe... our good... and I'd save him if I could!

Annas: Cut the confessions! Cut out the dramatics! I don't understand why you're filled with remorse! All that you've said has come true with avengeance! The mob turned against him, you backed the right horse!

Caiaphas: What you have done will mean the saving of Israel, you'll be remembered forever for this! Not only that, you've been paid for your efforts. Pretty good wages for one little kiss!

Judas: I don't know how to love him... I don't see why he moves me... he's a man! He's just a man! He's not a king; he's just the same as anyone I know! He scares me, so! When he's cold and dead... will he let me be? Does he love me too? Does he care for me?

Judas: Did you mean to die like that, was that a mistake? Or did you know your messy death would be a record breaker?

Judas: How will you ever pay for your sins?

Jesus: With my life, Judas. With my life. I don't have anything else.

Judas: I struggle, you collaborate.

Judas: What's good for man isn't good for God!

Jesus: Judas, my brother, I have something to tell you. I have a terrible secret from God. You know why I came to Jerusalem?

Judas: Yes. This is where the revolution is going to begin.

Jesus: Last night, Isaiah came to me. He had a prophecy, I saw it written. It said, "He has borne our faults; he was wounded for our transgressions, yet he opened now his mouth. Despised and rejected by all, he went forward without resisting, like a lamb led to the slaughter."

Judas: I don't understand.

Jesus: Judas, I am the lamb. I'm the one who's going to do.

Judas: Die? You mean you're not the Messiah?

Jesus: I Am.

Judas: That can't be. If you're the Messiah, why do you have to die?

Jesus: Listen, at first, I didn't understand myself...

Judas: No, *you* listen. Every day, you have a different plan. First it's love, then the ax, and now you have to die. What good could that do?

Jesus: God only talks to me a little at a time and tells me as much as I need to know.

Judas: We need you alive!

Jesus: Now I finally understand! All my life-all my life, I've been followed by voices, by footsteps, by shadows. And do you know what that shadow is? The cross. I have to die on the cross, and I have to die willingly. We have to go back to the temple.

Judas: And after you die on the cross, what happens then?

Jesus: I come back to judge the living and the dead.

Judas: I don't believe you.

Jesus: You have to.

Peter, Apostle: Don't you have any respect?

Judas: For him?

Jesus: [feebly] You don't understand...

Judas: Understand?... You broke my heart. Sometimes I curse the day I ever met you! We held the world in our hands. Remember what you told me? You took me in your arms, do you remember? And you begged me, "Betray me, betray me, I have to be crucified..."

Jesus: I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I have to die on the cross.

Judas: I won't let you die.

Jesus: You don't have a choice. Neither do I. Remember, we're bringing God and man together. They'll never be together unless I die. I'm the sacrifice... Forget everything else, understand that.

Judas: Rabbi, you broke my heart.

Saul: You had orders to kill him and you haven't done it. Now he acts like a prophet, and you follow him!

Judas: Did you hear what he said back there?

Saul: Yes I heard him. We took an oath against Rome. I don't see a thing against Rome around here, all I see are Jews against Jews.

Judas: Then you're not listening.

Judas: What are you doing here? What business do you have here? With women, with children. What's good for men isn't good for God!

Judas: Why must men doubt? Tell them they must keep faith! They must keep faith!

[walking away]

Demetrius: Wait, tell who? Who are you?

Judas: My name is Judas.

Judas: [to Demetrius, trying to explain why Jesus has been betrayed to the Romans] Because men are weak. Because they are cursed with envy and cowardice. Because they can dream of truth... but cannot live with it. So they doubt. They doubt, the fools!

Judas: And now your flesh is mine... You will be my tool, you will bring me souls... Kill, mutilate, destroy... There is still too much space down there...

Jesus: How do you remove a speck of sawdust from your brother's eye when all the while there's a big plank in your own?

Judas: I don't know, how do you remove a speck of sawdust from your brother's eye when all the while there's a big plank in your own?

Jesus: You hypocrite!

Judas: Wha-ha?

[cry of confused alarm]

Jesus: First you take the plank out of your own eye so you can see clearly to remove the speck of sawdust from your brother's eye!

Judas: Wait a minute! That's no answer to the question!

Jesus: Did I promise you an answer to the question?

Judas: Ah... No.

Judas: Now what the Good Master is telling us all right now is that up in Heaven, there are about a hundred million little tiny angels about 'yea' by 'yea', and they all take shorthand. And every time you do something silly, they write it in a...

Jesus: No, no.

Judas: That's not what the Good Master is telling us?

Judas: Then the man they called Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, "What will you give me to betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that moment he began to look out for an opportunity to betray him.

Lynne: Master...

[Lynne climbs down from a stage and rushes to Jesus. Gilmer, Robin, Joanne, Jeffrey, Merrell, Jerry and Katie follow]

Lynne: Master! Blessed are the poor in Spirit...

Jesus: For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Gilmer: Blessed are they who mourn...

Jesus: For they shall be comforted.

Robin: Blessed are the meek...

Jesus: For they shall inherit the Earth.

Joanne: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice...

Jesus: For the shall be filled.

Jeffrey: Blessed are the merciful...

Jesus: For they shall have mercy.

Merrell: Blessed are the pure in heart...

Jesus: For they shall see God.

Jerry: Blessed are the peace-makers...

Jesus: For they shall be called the children of God.

Katie: Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake...

Jesus: For theirs is the Kingdom of *heaven*!

[the others applaud]

Judas: [shouting from the distant stage] Blessed are ye... When men shall persecute you and revile you... and say all manner of evil against you...

[pauses then calms down]

Judas: falsely.

Jesus: Hey!

Judas: You come to me?

Jesus: I want to get washed up.

Judas: I would rather be baptized by you.

Jesus: No, we do well now to comform with all that God requires.

Jesus: Now you have heard that they were told "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth", but what I tell you is this. Never set yourself against the man who wrongs you. So if someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn and offer him your left.

Judas: Oh Jesus Chr...

[Gilmer jumps on him and covers his mouth]

Everyone: Slowly I turn, step by step, inch by inch.

[Jesus slaps Judas]

Judas: [moves to hit Jesus and stops] Hello? It's for you,

[laughs but Jesus doesn't]

Judas: No, I didn't think so.

[turns his cheek]

Judas: One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried and sent to Hades.

Robin: [nervously] Hello.

Demons: Hello.

Judas: Where he was in torment.

Sanchez: She died when she was over 80 years old...

Judas: I'd still do her!