Who betrayed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?

• A. Judas Iscariot
• B. Peter
• C. John
• D. James

Answer: (A)

Judas Iscariot is the one who betrayed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. In the scene, Jesus is praying while the disciples struggle to stay awake. Judas arrives with a crowd sent by the chief priests and elders, and he signals which person Jesus is by giving him a kiss. That kiss acts as the signal to arrest Jesus, marking Judas’s act of betrayal—handing Jesus over to be seized. The other disciples do not betray Jesus in this moment; Peter, for example, later denies Jesus, and John and James are present but do not betray. Thus, the betrayal in the Garden is Judas Iscariot’s.