Judas is a young man who works in a money-changing shop. He meets Yeshua and under false pretenses tricks him into criticizing the state authorities (who are lying in wait to arrest him). Judas is paid by Joseph Kaifa for his service but does not live to enjoy the money; he is lured by the attractive Niza to an olive grove outside of the city, where the hooded Pontius Pilate murders him.
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Judas of Kiriath Character Timeline in The Master and Margarita
The timeline below shows where the character Judas of Kiriath appears in The Master and Margarita. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2. Pontius Pilate
...anything bad about the emperor, Tiberius Caesar. Pilate questions Yeshua privately on whether he knows “Judas from Kiriath” and if Yeshua said what he was reported by Judas to have said....
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Chapter 25. How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Kiriath
...be no possibility of him acquiring “admirers or followers.” They then move on to discuss Judas of Kiriath.
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Aphranius explains that Judas is to receive money from the palace of Kaifa for turning in Yeshua. The procurator...
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The two men discuss the potential assassination of Judas, saying it will cause trouble for the high priest Kaifa and will “cause a very...
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Chapter 26. The Burial
Niza gets changed and sneaks out of her house. Meanwhile, Judas visits the high priest Kaifa to receive his money for turning in Yeshua Ha-Nozri. Niza...
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Judas wonders where Niza is going, as they had arranged to meet that evening. She says...
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Later, Judas arrives at the moonlit grotto, which seems completely deserted. Suddenly, two men appear. They threaten...
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...fetch Aphranius and complains that "even by moonlight I have no peace.” Aphranius reports that Judas has been killed and shows Pilate the bloody purse.
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Aphranius explains that he has not yet found Judas’s body but assumes that he would have been killed out of town. Pilate wonders how...
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Aphranius adds that no one at Kaifa’s palace will admit to paying Judas any money, which Pilate suggests will make it “much harder to find the killers.” Pilate...
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...seal ring as a memento. He orders the men who were supposed to be surveilling Judas to be reprimanded, and those who performed the burial to be rewarded.
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...Levi says he knows he can’t kill Pilate but will devote his life to killing Judas of Kiriath. Pilate informs him that Judas has already been killed and, furthermore, it was...
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