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To: Raymond James Norris who wrote (17884)	6/23/1998 4:06:00 AM
From: Chris land	Read Replies (1) of 39621

<<5 Matthew 27:5 (Judas hangs himself) Acts 1:18 (Judas falls headlong, his bowels gush)>> This is one in which I can only speculate at. 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 bowels gushed out. First of all it never says he died by this act. In fact I have never heard of any person ever dying like this. In Matt 27:3 we read how he tried to bring the money back to the chief priests whom he thought was backing him all the way, but they only held him in derision. He went out to hang himself but we don't know what happened before the act was successfully carried out. Nowhere does it say he immediately hanged himself. He perhaps had time to reflect upon his betrayal Jesus, and what his life was now worth. Peter had denied Jesus three times but scriptures say that when Jesus turned to look at him he went out and wept bitterly. What's to say Judas wasn't so remorsefull that inwardly he just completely fell apart inside over what he did. Perhaps mentally speaking he was so overwhelmed by his crime that he had a mental breakdown and suicide seemed the only escape. Consider the root word bowels: 4698 fig. pity or sympathy: -bowels, inward affection, + tender mercy. The scriptures say he repented himself. He confessed to the chief priests and elders that he had betrayed innnocent blood. so by the law the priests should have offered up sin sacrifices for him. ....and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. Why didn't they? Judas realized he had been used and it only added to his misery. Bottom line is he fell apart inwardly and then hanged himself because his grief was too much to bear. Chris

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