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# Death of Judas

Matthew 27:5

> 5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. <mark style="color:red;">**Then he went away and hanged himself.**</mark>
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> 6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. 8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, 10 and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.

Acts 1:18

> 15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty) 16 and said, “Brothers and sisters,\[[d](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+1\&version=NIV#fen-NIV-26940d)] the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 He was one of our number and shared in our ministry.”
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> 18 (With the payment he received for his wickedness, <mark style="color:red;">Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.</mark> 19 Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)