 And last, consider a joy which, if theology-laden, is, according to the New Testament, laden with bad theology. Judas Iscariot has conceived the wish to betray Jesus to the hostile authorities. “[Judas] went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers of the temple police about how he might betray [Jesus] to them. They were greatly pleased (echarēsan) and agreed to give him money” (Luke 22:4–5). Perhaps the religious authorities, like some crazed terrorists, thought they were doing the will of God in getting Jesus judicially murdered. In that case, their joy was theology-laden and thus religious. But Mark’s Gospel (15:10) comments that Pilate knew that it was out of envy (phthonos) that the religious authorities wanted to be rid of Jesus. If this is right, then their joy at Judas’s offer was not religious at all, but motivated by a vicious secular defensiveness of their own power and glory.