What did Judas do with the money and how did he die?

Question

Why did Matthew say that Judas casted the pieces of silver in the temple and Luke says that Judas purchased a field with the money? How did Judas die exactly?

Serious anwers please.

Matthew 27:5: ... And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Acts 1:16-18 (King James Version)
16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Answer 1

LOL he did both! Don't ask me to explain it! It's like how is God three people in one person! It doesn't make any sense! But you believe it because it's in the Bible so it must be true LOLOLOLOLOL!

Seriously...believe it or go to hell.

(EDIT: HAhahahaah, you guys are all so full of crap. The second passage in Acts clearly implies that Judas bought the field--not the Pharisees. Face it, the Bible is bull s***. GG. The topic creator owns you.)

Answer 2

There may be a problem with the translation of the passage in Acts, IDK.

Timeline:
1. Judas contacts the Sanhedrin, and agrees to betray Jesus for money.
2. The Sanhedrin pays Judas 30 pieces of silver (not much!)
3. Judas leads the Temple guards and assorted others to arrest Jesus, after sitting next to Him at dinner.
4. Jesus is tried and convicted, and led off to the Governor (Pilate).
5. Judas has second thoughts, and tries to repent of what he has done (betraying an innocent man). He tries to give the money back to the leading priests, but they refuse to take it. Judas throws the money into the temple and runs off.
6. Judas finds a field and hangs himself, as Jesus is being convicted and crucified. The rope breaks, and Judas' body splits apart as it hits the ground.
7. The priests pick up the money Judas threw into the temple. I notice that the exact amount is not, at THIS time, mentioned. Judas may have used some of it before returning it! However, this is not made clear. Perhaps it wasn't known, or important to the story.

"Blood Money", what we would call a "bounty", wasn't fit for temple use, so the priests couldn't put it into the regular temple treasury, EVEN THOUGH they had paid it out in the beginning! The priests had to find a different use for the money they had just claimed, something "appropriate".
8. Judas' suicide was discovered. Again, no mention about how long his body lay in the field until it was discovered. It could have been a few days; Jerusalem was a little busy killing Jesus Christ. The field would have had a "bad name", making it NOT prime real estate, being the site of a suicide.
9. The priests decide to use Judas' money to buy the field he committed suicide in, and convert it into a Gentile cemetary.

In the translation I use, Peter's quote stops temporarily at verse 18. Verse 18 is an aside; Luke is narrating information he gathered from other sources, and not quoting Peter. It is entirely possible that the field was bought by both Judas and the priests. It is evident that Judas killed himself, possibly trying to hang himself as a way of identifying with Jesus and his suffering, but failing in the attempt, and falling to his death instead.

It is also evident that it is not enough to be "sorry" for wrongdoing. Judas was very sorry that he had betrayed Jesus, but his actions in his sorrow were still wrong. Who knows what could have happened if he had waited a few days? Now we never will know.

Answer 3

According to Matthew 27:5, Judas hanged himself. But Acts 1:18 says, "pitching head foremost he noisily burst in his midst and all his intestines were poured out." Matthew seems to deal with the mode of the attempted suicide, while Acts describes the result. Combining the two accounts, it appears that Judas tried to hang himself over some cliff, but the rope or tree limb broke so that he plunged down and burst open on the rocks below. The topography around Jerusalem makes such an event conceivable.

Also related to his death is the question of who bought the burial field with the 30 pieces of silver. According to Matthew 27:6, 7, the chief priests decided they could not put the money in the sacred treasury so they used it to buy the field. The account in Acts 1:18, 19, speaking about Judas, says: "This very man, therefore, purchased a field with the wages for unrighteousness." The answer seems to be that the priests purchased the field, but since Judas provided the money, it could be credited to him. Dr. A. Edersheim pointed out: "It was not lawful to take into the Temple-treasury, for the purchase of sacred things, money that had been unlawfully gained. In such cases the Jewish Law provided that the money was to be restored to the donor, and, if he insisted on giving it, that he should be induced to spend it for something for the public weal [well-being]. . . . By a fiction of law the money was still considered to be Judas', and to have been applied by him in the purchase of the well-known 'potter's field.'" (The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, 1906, Vol. II, p. 575) This purchase worked to fulfill the prophecy at Zechariah 11:13.

Answer 4

Judas threw the money back in the temple...the Pharisees did not want the blood money so according to the scriptures it was prophesy that they bought the field for him after they found out what happen to him.
Judas tried to hang himself over a cliff but the rope did not hold him hanging there so he fell headlong on the rocks below and you can imagine what happened he just burst apart and his guts splattered out of his body.

Answer 5

The chief priest, scribes and pharisees took the money Judas gave back to them and bought a "potters field" with it.

Judas' death has both an official and unofficial account:

1) According to scripture, Judas hanged himself, and later fell down and burst open, spilling his entrails on the ground.

2) Some claim that Judas had some help, and that perhaps those same scribes and pharisees helped to string him up, in order to shut him up.

Answer 6

Judas threw the money down in the temple, and then he hanged himself. I think the other thing is like a "metaphor" or "parable" as they called it then. ..."he purchased a field with the reward of iniquity..." He bought himself a whole lot of trouble! and the rest... just my interpretation of what I see there....is that because of all this trouble that he brought on himself, he fell, into such darkness and despair, and that he was torn apart inside. Then, he couldn't undo what he did, so hanged himself. I mean, how would you feel, being a disciple, and being THE disciple to betray Jesus, the Son of God?

Answer 7

From what I learned, guilt overtook him and he threw the silver into the temple. Scholars have said that this wasn't something that happened right away and there may have been a lapse in 'time'. My theory is that he tried to 'do the right thing' and purchase land with the money but wasn't able to. Feeling it cursed he returned to the temple to try to make amends.

Answer 8

No one was with Judas when he died, and it seems that there are conflicting reports as to what he did with the money and how he died.

This is one of those , I heard, he heard stories and if we really want to know for sure, we will have to wait until we get to heaven and find out from God, who was there.

I used to let this one bother me a bit, but now I have placed it into the catagory of "find out later". This means that I will have to study original words and texts, and that takes a bit of time, and right now I am doing Romans.

Answer 9

I would go with the Matthew verse as that is what happened according to most translations. And he went out and hanged him selfe in shame for the deed that Jesus said he would do.
Remeber the King James version has been tampered with by King James so alot of the verses cannot be trusted to be true.

Answer 10

Judas threw the money back at the Pharasees after realizing his mistake and hung himself from a tree, because he believed that his sin against God was un forgivable