3057-The End of Judas

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 11, 1913

3057—The End of Judas

We read in Matt. 27:5 that Judas hanged himself. Acts 1:18, that he did not hang himself. Is this a contradiction? W. E. W.

No; Matt. 27:5 simply indicates that he hanged himself—only that, and nothing more. That was his own act, he committed suicide. But after he had hanged himself, the circumstances mentioned in Acts 1:18 occurred. Evidently he hanged himself on some ledge or hill, and afterward fell headlong down this ledge, and burst asunder. It is simply two parts of one description.