* Matthew xxvii, 3.
*** Matthew xxvii, 5.
**** Acts i, 18. **** Acts i, 18.
The writer of Acts knows nothing about the hanging story. His Judas has a headlong fall, which causes him to burst open in the midst, tearing out his bowels. A man hanging himself can not have a headlong fall, and if it had been known to the writer of Acts that Judas "went and hanged himself," he would have left out "he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out."
We leave it to the theologians to explain the manner of Judas' death.
One Writer Makes Jesus Affirm What Another Made Him Deny
WHEN we come to study the sayings attributed to Jesus the contradictions become more and more pronounced. The most irreconcilable statements are put in Jesus' mouth, often by the same evangelist, as the following few quotations will show:
Jesus Is the Judge of Men.
The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.—John v, 22.
Jesus Is Not the Judge of Men.