betray with a kiss

verb

Etymology

The term comes from the Gospel of Luke chapter 22, verse 48 of the New Testament: ⁴⁷ While He was still speaking, a crowd arrived, led by the man called Judas, one of the Twelve. He approached Jesus to kiss Him. ⁴⁸ But Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” The Gospel of Luke, Berean Standard Bible.

Definitions

  1. Of Judas, to kiss Jesus so as to discreetly signal to Roman soldiers that Jesus was the…

    Of Judas, to kiss Jesus so as to discreetly signal to Roman soldiers that Jesus was the Christ, and as such was the one to be arrested.

  2. To betray someone in a seemingly inconspicuous or innocuous manner.

    • One man caught on a barbed-wire fence; one man, he resist[s]. One man washed on an empty beach; one man betrayed with a kiss.

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