Judas is introduced into the Gospel accounts in the listing of the apostles sometime after Passover 31 C.E. and about a year and a half after Jesus began his ministry.
It is logical to conclude that Judas had been a disciple for a time before Jesus made him an apostle. evidently for a while he had been a disciple who found favor with God and with Jesus; his very selection as an apostle indicates that.
Furthermore, he was entrusted with caring for the common finances of Jesus and the 12.
That reflects favorably on his dependability at the time and his ability or education, especially since Matthew had had experience with money and figures but did not receive this assignment. Nonetheless, Judas did become completely, inexcusably corrupt.
Near Passover 32 C.E., Judas, with the other apostles, was sent out preaching. after Judas’ return, and less than a year after he had been made an apostle, he was publicly denounced by Christ, though not by name.
Some disciples left Jesus, being shocked over his teachings, but Peter said that the 12 would stick with Christ. In response Jesus acknowledged that he had chosen the 12 but said: “One of you is a slanderer, meaning “devil” or “slanderer”.”
The account explains that the one who already was a slanderer was Judas, who “was going to betray him, although one of the twelve.”
at the beginning of his apostleship Judas was faithful to God and to Jesus. Thus Christ must have meant that “from the beginning” of when Judas started to go bad, started to give in to imperfection and sinful inclinations, Jesus recognized it.
Judas must have known he was the “slanderer” Jesus mentioned, but he continued to travel with Jesus and the faithful apostles and apparently he made no changes.
five days before Jesus’ death, Mary, Lazarus’ sister, anointed Jesus with perfumed oil worth 300 denarii, about a year’s wages for a laborer. Judas strongly objected that the oil could have been sold and the money “given to the poor people.”
other apostles merely assented to what seemed to be a valid point, but Jesus rebuked them.
Judas’ real reason for objecting was that he cared for the money box and he “was a thief and used to carry off the monies” put in the box. So Judas was a greedy, practicing thief.
Yes, you could say Judas was saved, until He became corrupt.
The course that Judas chose was a deliberate one, involving malice, greed, pride, hypocrisy, and scheming.
He afterward felt remorse under the burden of guilt, as a willful murderer might at the result of his crime.
Yet Judas had of his own volition made a bargain with those who Jesus said made proselytes that were subjects of Gehenna twice as much as themselves, who were also liable to “the judgment of Gehenna.” which there is no resurrection for anyone in (Gehenna)
On the final night of his earthly life, Jesus himself said, actually about Judas: “It would have been finer for that man if he had not been born.” Later Christ called him “the son of destruction.”