text: without judas how can you be saved? let's say there were no judas. how would jesus be caught and died for your sins? those people responsible for his death were actually hired by god for your salvation? judas didn't want to do it. i always believed that judas was chosen by jesus to be the one who turned him in. jesus knew he had to die and chose his friend to make it happen. he didn't betray jesus. he was following orders. jesus told judas he would betray him. a lot of people see this as jesus telling the future. i say he didn't tell him that he would betray him. he told him he had to.