Contradiction claim
How did Judas die?
Matthew reports that Judas threw down the silver, departed, and hanged himself. Acts reports that he fell headlong, burst open, and his bowels gushed out. The two accounts also differ on who acquired the field and how it got its name.
Narrative divergenceReviewedSeverity: highClassification confidence: moderateTranslation dependent
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How to read this record
This record states that a conflict has been claimed. The classification is CodexTrace’s editorial assessment of what kind of question this is, not a verdict on whether the passages can be read together. Primary text comes first; interpretation and analysis follow it. Methodology
Passages side by side
TextThe primary text, as seeded. Nothing here is summarised or paraphrased.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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.
Why they appear to conflict
AnalysisEach side states a proposition attributable to its passages. A claim is not assumed to have exactly two sides.
Matthew
Judas hanged himself.
Hanging