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You need a christian, to answer that, and I don't think you will find one to take it on.

Most of their answers involve things that the bible never mentions.

Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Clear enough.

Acts 1:18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Again, a clear enough, if unlikely explanation.

We are left with two questions.

1: How did he die, suicide, or accident?

Matthew makes no mention of him falling, and Acts, makes no mention of him trying to hang himself.

2: Who bought the field.

The usual explanation is that the priests bought it with the blood money, on Judas behalf.

The falling down and bursting open, story, is probably intended as a horror story of what God can do, and even that makes little sense.

But then, no explanation that you receive will make much sense.

You are missing that they were filling the vacancy in the 12 Apostles, which is more important.

There is an apparent discrepancy between the account of Judas Iscariot's death given by Matthew (27:3-10) and that in Acts (1:16-20). According to the first, Judas hanged himself; the second states that he fell headlong, "and all his bowels gushed out." If both records be accurate, the wretched man probably hanged himself, and afterward fell, possibly through the breaking of the cord or the branch to which it was attached. Matthew says the Jewish rulers purchased the "field of blood"; the writer of the Acts quotes Peter as saying that Judas bought the field with the money he had received from the priests. As the ground was bought with the money that had belonged to Iscariot, and as this money had never been formally taken back by the temple officials, the field bought therewith belonged technically to the estate of Judas. The variations are of importance mainly as showing independence of authorship. The accounts agree in the essential feature, that Judas died a miserable suicide.

There are two different canonical references to the remainder of Judas' life:

The Gospel of Matthew says that, after Jesus' arrest by the Roman authorities (but before his execution), the guilt-ridden Judas returned the bribe to the priests and committed suicide by hanging himself. The priests were forbidden by Jewish law from returning the money to the treasury so they used it to buy the potter's field in order to bury strangers. The Gospel (Matthew 27:9-10) presents this as fulfilment of prophecy.

The Acts of the Apostles (1:18) says that Judas used the bribe to buy a field, but fell down, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. This field is called Akeldama or Field Of Blood. Acts 1 goes on to describe how his place among the apostles was subsequently filled by Matthias.

Yet another account was preserved by the early Christian leader, Papias: "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."

In the Gospel of Judas, it is implied that the other Apostles stoned him to death for his perceived betrayal.

Matthew 27:5-8 says, "So Judas threw the funds into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. the government monks picked up the funds and reported, ‘it particularly is a criminal offense to place this into the treasury, through fact it particularly is blood money.’ so they desperate to apply the funds to purchase the potter's container as a burial place for foreigners. consequently that's been reported as the sector of Blood to on the instant." Acts a million:18-19 says, "With the reward he have been given for his wickedness, Judas offered a container; there he fell headlong, his physique burst open and all his intestines spilled out. anybody in Jerusalem heard approximately this, so they reported as that container of their language Akeldama, it particularly is, container of Blood." it particularly is authentic? Did Judas hold close himself or did he fall? Did Judas purchase the sector or did the monks purchase the sector? Judas hung himself in the potters container (Matthew 27:5) after which after his physique decayed and bloated, for sure the rope broke and he burst into products on the land of the potters container (Acts a million:18-19). This passage presumes Judas' putting, as a guy falling down in a container would not bring about his physique bursting open. in basic terms decomposition and a fall from a top ought to reason a physique to burst open. whilst Judas threw the thirty products of silver down, the monks took the funds and used it to purchase the potter’s container (Matthew 27:7), no longer understanding that Judas became into going to allure to close himself there. Judas will possibly no longer have offered the sector himself, whether it became into the funds Judas gained for betraying Jesus that offered the sector.

Judas hung himself and may have then fell to the ground a burst open. This makes more sense if you think about a body hanging and starting to decay, then falling. A healthy fresh body would not burst upon impact with the ground. Their both right

Because Judas' blood money bought the field , not Judas himself personally . The religeous leaders couldn't keep the money because it would have dirtied there O so holy hands ..

He hung himself...no one cut him down, so when he rotted enough to fall from the tree, his intestines spilled out.

EDIT: I'm afraid I don't have a source document, I've heard it taught/interpreted that way. I'd love to tell you that "fell headlong" is aramaic for hung himself, but I've never studied the original language to know. Sorry.

what Anne is saying is right. My pastor told me that he hung himself and birds came to eat him when he rot. That's how the intestines came out.. Pretty disgusting..

Hanged himself.

Hung himself.