Spy Wednesday, the day when Judas Iscariot is said to have agreed to betray Jesus of Nazareth. I remember as a child that I couldn’t quite understand this bit of the story.

Last week, I discussed it with my First Year Religious Education class, they were as mystified by Judas as I had been at their age.

Looking back at the Gospel accounts and such secular history as there is, Jerusalem at the time was a very unstable place. Hundreds of thousands of people were there for Passover – a …