4190 - Death of Judas

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 30, 1913

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 38

4190 — Death of Judas

Matt. 27:5 says Judas threw the money down into the temple and went and hanged himself, while Acts 2:18 [Acts 1:18] says he purchased a field with the money. How can the two statements be reconciled? J. E. G.

Simply in this way: the context is that the money that he received for betraying his Lord was used for the purchase of that field. It was given to the potter's field by those to whom it was returned. That was the result of his rejection of the money. He returned it to the priests, and they bought the potter's field with it. What a man does through agents he is spoken of as doing himself.