Judas Hangs Himself

Matthew is the only writer who tells us of Judas’s fate. One is amazed at the callous hypocrisy of the chief priests. Without any sense of guilt for their betrayal of innocent blood and without any compassion for their accomplice, now driven to suicide by his guilt, they are still concerned about the technicalities of the law.

Critics who claim the Bible is inconsistent bring up the fact that Matthew says the field of blood was so named because it was bought with blood money. Later in Acts 1:19, Luke says that the field where Judas died became called the field of blood because of Judas’s death. The answer is that there may have been two fields that came to be called by the field of blood, but for different reasons. Otherwise, different ones called it that for different reasons.

People wonder if Judas’s repentance led him to salvation. We don’t know, but God’s grace extends that far.