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the devil

demonic underworld Christian corroborated · 12

In the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John, the devil is described as a spiritual entity that enters into Judas Iscariot. This possession causes Judas to offer to betray Jesus to the chief priests. The devil's intervention is presented as a supernatural explanation for Judas's betrayal.

↻ synthesized from 12 sources

When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 2020
Historical notes
Documented in the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John, first century CE texts.

Relationships

enemy of
Jesus, Perpetua, Christophoros, Martin, human race, Messiah, Alain de l'Isle, angels
allied with
Emperor Decius
co occurs with
Sophia, the monster, Typhon, Pan, Ahriman, Python, Baphomet, Antichrist, Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit, Mercurius, Nature, God
equivalent to
great dragon
syncretized with
Akuma
child of
Demiurge
served by
his demons, his angels

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (7)
  1. Judas Iscariot
  2. Perpetua and Felicity
  3. Saint Christopher
  4. Saint Martin of Tours
  5. Nekyia
  6. Goat of Mendes
  7. Demiurge
encyclopedia (5)
  1. Abano, Pietro D' (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Adder (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  3. Antichrist (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  4. Baranabas, Joses (Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)) (1906)
    peer reviewed
  5. Alain de l'Isle (Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)) (1913)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“In the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of John, the devil enters into Judas, causing him to offer to betray Jesus.”

#1167 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The emperor gets a visit from the devil disguised as a human who incites him against Christophoros. The next day the emperor orders everyone to sacrifice to the heathen gods.”

#1550 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The devil image still haunts in our fears of the unconscious and the latent psychosis that supposedly lurks there”

#20100 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“the Demiurge is also the maker, out of the appropriate substance, of an order of spiritual beings, the devil, the prince of this world, and his angels. But the devil, as being a spirit of wickedness, is able to recognise the higher spiritual world”

#25516 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Circumcision was not to be of the flesh, which was but a delusion of the devil, but of the heart;”

#43502 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free