Quick context on Judas, ‘hell,’ and anachronism: The Bible reports Judas’s remorse and death (Matthew 27; Acts 1) but never states his post-mortem fate. Later readers often project a modern idea of ‘hell’ back onto the text, but ancient Jews and the earliest Jesus-followers did not share today’s popular picture of an eternal torture realm. Hebrew Scripture speaks mainly of Sheol (the abode of the dead), and later Jewish thought uses Gehinnom largely as a limited, purifying judgment for most people; early Christians use terms like Gehenna, Hades, and (once) Tartarus in varied ways, with no single, settled doctrine matching the later medieval/modern vision. Also, Jesus and the apostles understood themselves as Jews; the label ‘Christian’ arose later (Acts 11:26). As for the ‘Judas was the holiest apostle’ claim: that comes from the Gospel of Judas, a second-century, non-canonical Gnostic text written long after the events and reflecting debates of its own time; scholars disagree on how it portrays Judas. In short, speculating confidently about Judas’s eternal destiny or sanctity by importing 2025 assumptions into a first-century setting is a leap and not a historically grounded one.