2006-06-13 07:57:28 · 8 answers · asked by Craig B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Both versions are true.
2006-06-13 08:12:21 · answer #1 · answered by proudmatriarch 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the Gospel of Matthew, he hung himself. The Jewish Elders used the silver to buy the field. In Acts of the Apostles, you get the version of him falling into the field.
I don't know if there's any way to prove which of the two is "right," but it has always been my understanding that most Christians subscribe to the hanging theory. Part of the reasoning for that the Gospel of Matthew is an older text and it is often thought that "Luke" and the author of Acts drew from that text.
2006-06-13 08:22:44 · answer #2 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is complicated because Judas was not who handed Jesus over to the Romans, it was Satan himself. Right before Judas left the dinner table the bible says that "satan entered him". Well, Judas may have been in there, stuck in some corner of his bowels, but he was not in control of his body, Satan was.
This is why it was so interesting when Jesus said "you betray the son of man with a kiss?". He was talking to Satan, not Judas.
So, of course, when Satan was done with the body of Judas, I am sure Judas felt guilty and may have hanged himself. But I truely believe that his body burst open as Acts says because that was when Satan left his body in a very impolite way - yet true to form - and left Judas to die, unsaved. The latter makes more spiritual sense than the first account.
2006-06-13 08:07:56 · answer #3 · answered by Arielah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think what happened is he hung himself from a tree near a ledge overlooking the thirty pieces of silver field. The rope broke after he was dead and he burst open due to the fall.
2006-06-13 08:07:17 · answer #4 · answered by shakeragroad_2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are true. He hanged himself, the branch broke, he fell among the rocks and his stomach burst open.
2006-06-13 08:06:13 · answer #5 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One account says he hung himself. The other says his guts spilled out. Get used to it. The holy book are full of contradictions.
2006-06-13 08:31:00 · answer #6 · answered by plastic star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to scripture, he hung himself, and then his body fell from the tree he used and burst open from the fall.
2006-06-13 08:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early in Acts it states that he fell headlong in the field he bought and his body burst open. Then his intestines fell out. It's gross but he got punished for what he did.
2006-06-13 08:01:23 · answer #8 · answered by Element Uprising Fan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋