How did Judas really die & did he repent beforehand (Bible says he did)?

Question

According to Papias who lived circa. 110-140 CE said Judas walked about in this world a sad example of impiety. His body was swollen. His body crushed by a chariot so that his bowels gushed out. Another translation, the Roberts-Donaldson says Judas was crushed to death by a chariot rather than hanging or accidently falling to his death. In the Bible, Acts 1:18 says Judas purchased a field and fell in headfirst onto the field where "all his bowels gushed out!" YET, Matthew 27:4 states Judas repented his betrayal in a different way. So, which way do you feel Judas died?
Do you believe he repented? OR, is it no one seems to really know?

Answer 1

Judas did not repent. How did Judas die? 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.

Answer 2

Every indication from scripture would seem to point to him not repenting. There is no reason to believe that it would not have been mentioned had he repented. Peter denied the Lord but did later repent. Judas's sorrow does not concretely indicate repentance and would seem to be little more than the sorrow a criminal might feel after being given a life sentence. I would guess that Judas never believed Jesus was who He said he was. I don't think He would have acted the way he did if He really believed that He was the Christ.

Answer 3

In Matthew 24: 4 It says Judus went before the priests, feeling very sorry for what he had done, and told them that he had betrayed an innocent man. The priest asked him what that had to do with them. He threw the 30 pieces of silver in the temple and went off and hanged himself. In the book of Zechariah 11: 4-17 the Lord spoke to him and this is what he recorded. All prophecy is dual, meaning it has a meaning at the time written and a future fullfillment. For one to have the Son of God, in His own words, you must be born again. Not of man, but of the spirit. Jesus' teachings are very simple but very hard to do! He spoke words that are of the spirit and return to the spirit and never return empty. The 12 followers of Jesus laid hands on people and they received the comforter or Holy Spirit which was not given until Jesus ascended to heaven. So, once this is done, you are a child of the most high God. It states if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and beleive it in your heart then you will be saved. Then you are baptized by water(the burial of your old self being born new) and the laying on of hands brings the Holy Spirit. I know this all sounds wild, but, it is not. I was a Heroin addict for over 20 years and had been through much hell here on earth. Yet, when in jail, I had read all the books so I picked up a bible and read it and it was pure fantasy. so I asked the Lord to help me to understand it. and sure enough about 6 months later he began to reveal his word and hisself to me. Jesus is the Word. When God spoke at creation, Jesus being the Word was with him, so there are 2 not 3. God is spirit. Jesus is his word made manifest.

Answer 4

I believe it was Paul who made a comparison to Judas' suicide and betrayal of Jesus with Peter's denial of Christ three times.

Judas COULD of repented of this act and asked God/Jesus for forgivenss, but Judas did not, he thought that he could never be forgiven for this and therefore took his own life. which the Bible said that Judas hung himself and his bowels exploded out of his body when the branch broke off and he hit the ground.

Peter on the other hand, repented and sought forgivness from God/Jesus, which Jesus did forgive him.

Judas did not repent of his sin. his sorrow overpowered him.

Answer 5

Judas iscariot hung himself, and no he didn't repent though he felt remorse. Matthew 27:1-10

Answer 6

The Bible does not make it clear whether Judas repented or not.
The Bible says that Judas hung himself.

Answer 7

the two; Judas threw the money down onto the Temple floor and left; there exchange into no way those monks ought to allow him stay. Judas exchange into hung and decrease from his adams apple each of ways right down to his privates, and his insides gushed out. specific, Judas did "purchase the land"; he offered the land, in that as quickly as he threw the products of silver down, the monks accrued it and stated they won't use it because of the fact it exchange into the cost of blood, so they offered the potters container with the money. you're actually not information figures of speech interior the Bible. Judas offered the potters container not by using bodily going and procuring the land, yet by using the money that he threw down, get it? Oh, and Judas did not commit suicide; he had assorted help in his dying.

Answer 8

No the Bible says he did not. Other accounts of the lives of early christianity are unsubstantiated. So in some cases they may be lying witnesses and in others they may just be heresay. Believe the most accurate and tested accounts.