![]() ![]() ![]() Satan also took the opportunity to torment Judas for his actions during this time. Judas followed and watched in horror as the troops began to torture Jesus. Jesus healed the young man before being led away. Peter tried to prevent the arrest, attacking the high priest's servant and cutting off his ear. Jesus asked if Judas intended to betray him with a kiss. Judas came into the garden and walked up to Jesus, and kissed him. Judas informed the soldiers beforehand that he would kiss the one who was Jesus, that was the man that they should arrest. Judas may not have purchased the field personally, but he provided the money for the transaction and could then be said to be the purchaser.As the film began Judas and a group of soldiers went to the Garden of Gethsemane where he knew Jesus and some of his disciples were spending the evening. 2) When Judas threw the thirty pieces of silver down, the priests took the money and used it to buy the potter’s field (Matthew 27:7). The priests, who considered the silver to be blood money, completed the transaction that Judas had begun and bought the field. After the deed was done, Judas was paid, but he then returned the money to the chief priests. Sometime during the days leading up to his betrayal of Jesus, Judas made arrangements to purchase a field, although no money had yet been transferred. So Matthew mentions the actual cause of death, and Luke focuses more on the horror surrounding it.Ĭoncerning who paid for the field, here are two possible ways to reconcile the facts: 1) Judas was promised the thirty pieces of silver several days before Jesus’ arrest (Mark 14:11). Only decomposition and a fall from a height could cause a body to burst open. The Acts passage presumes Judas’s hanging, as a man falling down in a field does not normally result in his body bursting open. Note that Luke does not say that Judas died from the fall, only that his body fell. Then, after his body had begun to decay and bloat, the rope broke, or the branch of the tree he was using broke, and his body fell, bursting open on the land of the potter’s field (Acts 1:18–19). Which account is correct? Did Judas die by hanging, or did he die by falling? Or are both true? A related question is, Did Judas buy the field, or did the priests buy the field?Ĭoncerning how Judas died, here is a simple reconciliation of the facts: Judas hanged himself in the potter’s field (Matthew 27:5), and that is how he died. ![]() Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood" (Acts 1:18–19). Here is the account in Acts: "With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Luke says that Judas fell into a field and that his body ruptured. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day" (Matthew 27:5–8). The chief priests picked up the coins and said, ‘It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.’ So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. Here is the account in Matthew’s Gospel: "So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Matthew and Luke (in the book of Acts) both mention some details of Judas’s death, and reconciling the details between the two accounts has presented some difficulties. The death of Judas Iscariot was a suicide committed after he was filled with remorse (but not repentance) for his betrayal of Jesus.
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