ARE THERE DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS OF JUDAS’S DEATH?

Concerning 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. 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). Note that Luke does not say that Judas died from the fall, only that his body fell. The Acts passage presumes Judas’s hanging, as a man falling down in a field does not normally result in his body bursting open. Only decomposition and a fall from a height could cause a body to burst open. So Matthew mentions the actual cause of death, and Luke focuses more on the horror surrounding it.
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  1. Examing the claim of a church father, Papias gives a different account of what happened to Judas’s body.

    “Judas walked about in this world a sad example of impiety; for his body having swollen to such an extent that he could not pass where a chariot could pass easily, he was crushed by the chariot, so that his bowels gushed out.”
    Source: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.vii.ii.iii.html

    So Papias says that Judas’ bowels were gushed out, not because he fell on the ground after hanging himself, but because his body was swollen and he was crushed by a chariot.

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