Matthew 27.3-10, Acts 1.15-26.
Technically Judas bar Simon of Kerioth, the renegade follower of Jesus whom we know as Judas Iscariot, isn’t part of
Here’s the problem: For the most part, the Matthew and Acts stories contradict one another.
Not that
Matthew 27.3-10 KWL - 3 Upon seeing Jesus is condemned,
- a repentant Judas his betrayer returned the 30 silvers
- to the head priests and elders,
- 4 saying, “I sin by betraying innocent blood.”
- They say, “What’s it have to do with us?
- It’s your problem.”
- 5 Throwing the silver into the temple, Judas leaves,
- and goes off to hang himself.
- 6 The head priests, taking the silver, say,
- “We can’t put this in the treasury,
- since it’s the value of blood.”
- 7 Convening, they decide to buy with it the potter’s field,
- for burying strangers.
- 8 Thus that land is called Bloodfield to this day;
- 9 then the saying of the prophet Jeremiah is fulfilled,
- saying, “They take the 30 silvers,
- the value of the one they valued,
- who was valued by Israel’s sons.
- 10 They give it for the potter’s field,
- just as the Lord directed me.”
Acts 1.15-20 KWL - 15 In these days, Simon Peter gets up
- in the middle of the family to say,
- “The crowd is more than 120 people I can name.
- 16 Men! Family!
- We have to fulfill the scripture
- the Holy Spirit foretold through David’s mouth
- about Judas, who became the guide of those who arrested Jesus.
- 17 Judas was counted among us.
- He received a place in this ministry.
- 18 He thus got himself a plot of land
- from his unrighteous reward,
- and was found face-down,
- burst open, his innards all spilled out.
- 19 All Jerusalem’s dwellers came to know it,
- so the plot’s called in their dialect Khaqal-Dema,” i.e. Bloodfield.
- 20 “It’s written in the book of Psalms:
- ‘Make his house desert, and don’t let settlers in it.’
Ps 69.25 - And alternately, ‘Another person: Take his office.’”
Ps 109.8