Stephen Adly Guirgis

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will that takes a close look at the eternal damnation of the Bible's most notorious sinner.--[book cover].

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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

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JUDAS: You got a lot of fuckin’ nerve—

JESUS : —and you’ve got no nerve at all! Where’s your 

 in all this, Judas? You think you were with me for any other reason than that?! It was your heart, Judas. You were 

. You were my heart! Don’t you know that?!

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JESUS: —and you’ve got no nerve at all! Where’s your heart in all this, Judas? You think you were with me for any other reason than that?! It was your heart, Judas. You were all heart. You were my heart! Don’t you know that?!

JUDAS: All I know is that you broke me unfixable—and that I’m here … And, you wanna know when you delivered your message differently? At the Temple, Jesus—that’s when. And you were beautiful there. And you left there three inches taller. And we all saw it. I loved you. That’s all I did. And that’s the truth. And now I’m here.

JESUS: Judas—What if I were to tell you that you are not here? That you are with me in my Kingdom even now, and that you have been there since the morning of my Ascension and that you have never left?

JUDAS: Why … didn’t you make me good enough … so that you could’ve loved me?

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