Provided that Judas was given the authority to do what only a believer has the authority to do means he was given a spiritual gift regardless of whether or not he exercised it. Since Judas was actually a believer like the other apostles, it's strong evidence that they all did what Jesus empowered them to do. It's incomprehensible that Jesus would empower someone that did not have the faith to accept such an empowerment, contrary to Scripture explicitly stating the kind of authority Judas had was specifically for believers in Mar 16:17. The evidence leans more toward Judas probably doing miracles rather than not.It says he was granted to do so....there is nowhere in scripture that specifically said he cast out any demon..
I also believe that God chose Judas to betray Jesus...that was Gods plan from the beginning ...God knows the heart of a person from the beginning of their life to the very end of their life ....he could see the heart of Judas..that’s why he chose him, he fulfilled Gods plan ....in that he was the one who was chosen by God to betray the Holy one.....we serve a very clever God....that is my opinion and belief only.
Sorry, there is nowhere in that scripture that specifically says that’s” Judas”:cast out devils.
Jesus sent out the 12...he gave them authority....we can’t see anywhere that “ Judas” drove out impure spirits....we can “ assume”:that he did....but, there is nowhere in scripture to say that he did.
Unless I can read that Judas drove out demons...then I don’t believe that he personally did, even though it says he was given authority, that is not saying that he drove any demons out..it’s just saying that he was given “ authority “ that’s all that scripture is saying....personally, I don’t believe he did..,because it’s not written that “ Judas” drove out demons...he had Jesus authority...
Therefore I agree to disagree...
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
10 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
2 These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
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Mark 14
King James Version
14 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
11 And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.
14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
15 And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
16 And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
17 And in the evening he cometh with the twelve.
18 And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
19 And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
20 And he answered and said unto them, It is one of the twelve, that dippeth with me in the dish.
21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it
The Bible does not say "God chose Judas to betray Jesus." You're doing what I am doing. You are taking the evidence for what you specifically want to believe and then disregarding the evidence for the things you do not want to believe. I personally believe it's unlikely Judas was specifically singled out for damnation. There are no prophecies that mention Judas specifically by name, nor did Jesus seem to know exactly who would dip their bread in his cup with him, but only that they knew someone would be a betrayer and it ended up being Judas who seemed shocked to discover it was him.
For a time Judas was a genuine believer empowered to do miracles before his eventual betrayal and losing of his salvation.
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