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NASB | Acts 1:18 (Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 1:18 (Now Judas Iscariot acquired a piece of land [indirectly] with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery, and falling headlong, his body burst open in the middle and all his intestines poured out. |
Bible Question: Personally, I do not care very much about how Judas Iscariot died etc., however someone asked me a question about this and I could not answer. In Matthew 27:5, the Bible says that, "And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed and he went away and hanged himself." (So here, it looks like he committed suicide). Also in Matt.27:6,7 "The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, 'It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.' And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field ..." (So, it was the chief priests who decided to buy the field.) Then in Acts 1:18 it is written, "Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out." (Here it sounds like Judas bought the field - in fact in the NIV version it says exactly that and his death seems to be a result of his fall rather than he hanging himself.) Would somebody care to elaborate on this? |
Bible Answer: The gospels DO NOT contradict; however, they do not always complement each other. I see inspiration as, the writer "seeing" the event and writing it in his own words. Example 1:if you and I were writing a story about the same person, and my view was in 20 feet ahead of the person and yours was 20 feet behind the person our stories, at times, would seem to contradict; however both could be accurate. If the subject was in a house and performed a miracle, I would write that we were leaving the area we were in, but you might write that we were entering the area! Both are true, yet they seem to contradict! This particular issue has to do with what I call, "gaps." Example 2: often times in the Gospels and Acts apparent contraditions exist simply because there are gaps in the information. I personally believe that each writer is given only a certain amount of information from the Holy Spirit, others believe that the writer simply chose only certain facts to write about; either way, there is not a contradition only an information gap. Judas probably hung himself on a easily accesible branch and stepped off a cliff that the branch was hanging over. After he died (or before) the branch broke and his body dropped on rocks. In his emotional state it would have been difficult to climb up a tree, tie a knot to a branch, tie the nuse, slip is over his head, and jump out of the tree. All that for an explanation as easy as this, sorry! Hope it helped!! God bless! |