Contradiction claim
Who bought the field connected with Judas’s betrayal money?
Matthew reports that the chief priests took counsel and bought the potter’s field with the returned silver, to bury strangers. Acts says that Judas himself purchased a field with the reward of iniquity.
Narrative divergenceReviewedSeverity: moderateClassification confidence: moderateTranslation dependent
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And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
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.