Humanity throughout history, on the one hand, admires the great examples of human virtue, sacrificial love and, on the other hand, is amazed at the baseness, betrayal and malice of fallen human nature. The above description of the life of Judas is set out in the text creations of Saint Nile the Myrrh-Streaming according to Eastern tradition. Judas was from the village of Iscaria, for which he later received the nickname Iscariot. His father's name was Rovel. Before conception, Judah's mother had a terrible dream that she would conceive and give birth to a male child who would become the destroyer of the entire Jewish race. Her husband reproached her for believing in dreams. The frightened woman obeyed her husband and, not heeding God’s warning, conceived that same night, and after the allotted time gave birth to a boy. But the memory of the terrible dream did not let her go, so together with her husband they decided to get rid of the child, abandoning him to the will of fate. Judah's parents made a box, tarred it, put the baby in it and threw it into Lake Gennesaret. Opposite their home village there was a small island where shepherds grazed sheep in winter. The current brought the box with the baby to this island. The shepherds took him out of the water, fed him with sheep's milk and gave him to a woman so that she could feed the foundling. It was she who named the boy Judas. When the child grew up a little, the shepherds took him from the nurse and brought him to Iskaria to give him to someone to raise. Here they met Judas’s real father, Rovel, and, not knowing that this was his own son, he took him into his house. The parents, grieving over their son thrown into the water, fell in love with Judas, who was also very handsome in face. Soon they had another son, but Judas began to envy his younger brother, fearing to lose his inheritance. He began to constantly offend him, beat him, becoming more and more inflamed with anger and envy. Finally, one day, when his parents were not at home, he killed his brother by throwing a stone at him. Frightened by the consequences, Judas fled to the island where he was raised, and here he entered service in the house of a noble Greek. The owner's daughter-in-law was seduced by the beauty of Judas. He entered into an adulterous relationship with her, and then, when everything was discovered, he killed his patron and fled to Jerusalem. Hungry for power and wealth, Judas was accepted into the palace of Herod, who fell in love with him for his dexterity and handsome appearance. Judas became the ruler of the palace and was in charge of the royal treasury. The parents, not knowing that he had killed his brother, were very sad about their missing son. Many years later, Rovel and his wife moved to Jerusalem and bought themselves a house with a magnificent garden next to Herod’s palace. Beautiful fragrant flowers bloomed in this garden. Judas set out to rip them off without permission, not expecting that he, a royal man, might be refused. The owner of the garden was indignant at such shamelessness. Then the arrogant and proud Judas grabbed the stone, not realizing that he had raised his hand against his own father, and killed him. King Herod was extremely indignant at Judas's act, but since he resorted to the protection of intercessors, he forgave him for the murder, ordering, in fulfillment of the law, to marry the widow of the murdered man. So Judas entered into an incestuous relationship with his own mother, who gave birth to a child from him. Some time later, Judas learned with horror that he was married to his own mother. Then, hearing that Christ was teaching in the vicinity of Jerusalem, calling sinners to repentance, Judas joined Him to repent. Christ accepted him among His disciples and made him treasurer and steward over all the apostles. Seeing Judas, Christ immediately realized that he was an evil and vicious man, but accepted him with great joy in order to heal his soul. Christ only once, during the Last Supper, hinted to His disciples what Judas really was. And the apostles themselves never grumbled about what Judas did, and never complained to Christ about him, although they saw many of his disobediences or outrages. Then Judas was the brother of the apostles and a disciple of Christ, and Christ washed his feet, like the other apostles..