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May 25, 2009 · There is no contradiction surrounding Judas’ death but rather two descriptions given by two different authors of the same event. Matthew tells us that Judas died by hanging (death is inferred from the passage).
- A Righteous Lie
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- The Unforgivable Sin
Let’s first look at the relevant passages: Acts 13:39 and by...
- A Righteous Lie
- Matthew: Judas as Another Absalom
- Luke: Judas as Another Ahab
- Don’T Settle For Easy Answers
Why would Matthew feature Judas hanging himself rather than falling to the ground and bursting open? Because Matthew wants us to view Judas’s death in light of a particular biblical backdrop: the death of Absalom, David’s rebellious son. Absalom’s death is unusual. While out on his mule, he gets his head stuck in the branches of an oak tree, which ...
Additionally, whereas Matthew the tax collector is more interested in the financial side of Judas’s death (i.e., the disposal of ill-gotten gains), Luke the physician is more interested in the bloodshed. Luke also devotes less space to Jesus’s betrayal (two verses rather than four) and more to Jesus’s experience in Gethsemane (Luke uniquely has Jes...
Matthew and Luke report Judas’s death in different ways, but they do so for discernible reasons. An important principle emerges from these considerations. The tensions in the Bible are not contradictions. Nor are they meant to be explained away; rather, they’re meant to draw us deeper into Scripture’s details and intricacies. And, of course, since ...
Aug 17, 2021 · Judas's death and who bought the field, both differ; Matthew records Judas hanged himself and the Chief Priests bought the field. Whereas Peter's words (recorded by Luke) mentions Judas's death (falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out) & buying of the field (Judas bought the field) in a different manner.
Feb 10, 2020 · If they didn’t rush through their daily devotional, they’d catch some obvious contradictions. One of the more famous of these contradictions is the two accounts of the death of Judas. Here’s Biblical scholar and critic Bart Ehrman: “The two reports give different accounts of how Judas died.
Matthew says that Judas died by hanging himself, but Acts says that Judas died by 'falling headlong' in the midst of the field he bought and 'burst asunder', spilling his guts out.
- Attempts to harmonise the two accounts should not use the salami technique of arguing. This means that all discrepancies should be addressed in the...
- I. Howard Marshall gives a concise statement of the options for harmonization in his commentary: It is quite possible that Matthew or Luke is simpl...
- 3 possibilities come to mind, all of which take as a working assumption that he hung himself from a tree. Nobody actually saw him fall; they just s...
- One explanation in antiquity was that although Judas had attempted to hang himself, the tree bent and broke, so that he survived, but later became...
- As far as I have researched, primarily we need to understand in Acts 1:15–19, Luke is recording what Peter spoke (dialect) and not his (Luke) knowl...
- (1). Judas hanged himself (Matt.), but the rope broke and his body was ruptured by the fall (possibly after he was already dead and beginning to de...
- Or it is possible Judas had a lot of help "hanging himself". If you want to hang a person,, and make sure he absolutely dies, or dies in total disg...
- The operative word here, πρηνής, is a hapax legomenon. The meaning not totally certain but often translated as "headlong". BDAG offers this: forw...
- 1 part Acts 1:18 Ουτος this μεν – ουν therefore εκτησατο he acquired χωριον area εκ from μισθου of wage της of the αδικιας of injustice και and πρ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Judas Iscariot, known as the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is said to have died by suicide, according to the New Testament of the Bible. His death is described in two different passages, each presenting a slightly different account: Matthew 27:3-5 - According to the Gospel of Matthew, Judas felt remorse after seeing that Jesus was condemned.
Sep 1, 2023 · The death of Judas, as recorded in two places in the New Testament, appears to present us with a contradiction: Matthew 27:3-10. Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.”
