What if Judas didn't do it?

[Ferrocyanide]

There was silver on the line.  You know how The Jew are.  I'm not sure you can really expect a committed believer in the great fairy to reject the overt antisemitism proto christianity employed to distance itself as a gentile community appropriating judaism.

Yes, there is that angle to it.
Also, the authorities, the elders, priests, the pharisees  and so on all knew what Jesus looked like. I assume this was mentioned before (I did not read the entire thread).
So, there was no need for Judas.

The story often portrays people as idiots. It portrays the apostles as idiots at times, it portrays Judas as an idiot, it portrays Jesus’s parents as idiots and a few other people as well.
I would say this is evidence that the story is extremely distorted.