JUDAS was not a traitor but a close friend of Jesus who was only doing his bidding when he turned him in with a kiss, a newly translated ancient document unveiled in the US suggests.

Judas was not a traitor but a close friend of Jesus who was only doing his bidding when he turned him in with a kiss, a newly translated ancient document unveiled in the US today suggests.

“In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth,” according to a new version of the Bible translated into the text message language of mobile phone users.

Mel Gibson’s controversial film about the last hours of Christ on earth was today denounced by a critic as “the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of the Second World War.”