Albrecht Durer, Betrayal of Christ (No. 3) 1508 Engraving, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Many argue that Paulinity is the preferred name to Christianity since the religion was molded by Paul and Paul never actually met Jesus (see my post Zizek: St. Paul is the Grand Inquisitor). The legend of the Judah’s kiss as a betrayal appears in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark and most scholars place these Gospels outside and past the “Jesus experience”.
Here is what I learned observing a messiah. There are apparatchiks like Paul who come to run the deliberately universal religion, they never met or never had an emotional connection to Jesus. They hate people who were actually close to Jesus. So they take love and spin it as a betrayal. It’s clear that Judah was the only person who was intensely close to the Jesus Christ and this was the very reason that the later apparatchiks, out of jealousy, portrayed him as the person who sold Jesus to the Romans.