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Matthew 27:3

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Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

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Contradictions (2)

Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.

  • How did Judas die?

    Matthew 27:5 has Judas return the silver, throw it down in the temple, and go hang himself — a tidy suicide-by-hanging. Acts 1:18 has Judas buy a field with the blood money, fall headlong in it, and burst open with his bowels gushing out — a graphic falling-apart death with no hanging mentioned.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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  • How many apostles were in office between the resurrection and ascension?

    Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:5 reports that the risen Jesus appeared "to Cephas, then to the twelve." But by the time of the resurrection, Judas Iscariot had already died (Matthew 27:3-5), and Matthew 28:16 explicitly calls the post-resurrection group "the eleven disciples."

    Critical scholarship: Genuinely disputed among scholars.

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