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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. |
Subject: How Judas Iscariot died? |
Bible Note: A Different View ................................. Hello again my good friend Mekarios. It has been a long time since I have had the pleasure of talking with you. However, not as long as the topic of Judas’ death has lingered on this forum :) I see that you answered this question over a year ago, and yet had to answer it again today. It never ceases to amaze me that so many people refuse to use the search tool to check their question before adding redundant threads. ................................. Oh well, after looking at the posts from the several times that this question has been asked and answered, I see the there seems to be complete agreement (rare on any forum) that Judas hung himself, then the rope (or branch) broke, he fell on rocks, and his guts came out. This is possible, and is what I believed for years about this issue. However, I have recently heard another explanation which is also possible. ................................. The basic idea is that the accounts in Matthew and Acts are not sequential events, but the same event. How can this be, you might ask. Well the explanation that I heard was the the use of a rope for hanging was actually a relatively recent custom, and was not used back in Jesus’ day and culture. Hanging meant something very different to the people back then. For instance, Jesus HUNG on the cross, yet He was nailed to wood, no rope involved. Another type of HANGING that was common in that time was to impale someone on a long sharp pole, and then stick it in the ground so that they are high in the air. ................................. Therefore, Judas could have set up a sharp pole, and then climbed a tree, (or a hill, etc.), and then flung himself headlong onto the pole, impaling himself. This would have been viewed in the culture of his day as HANGING himself, and would at the same time of course lead to some spilling of guts. |