[familyop]

SkyDancer wrote:
"He hung himself, there was an earthquake when Jesus was on the cross and the tree fell over the cliff .... best I could come up with ... saw it in an old movie once ....but a good explanation nonetheless"

Oh, goodie! Let me be a Roman for a minute and help you with that. Let's see...we have to fill in the part from Acts, where it says that Judas purchased his suicide property with the blood money.

"He hung himself, there was an earthquake when Jesus was on the cross and the tree fell over the cliff..." Then, while Judas was dead and falling, he purchased the property under him with the pieces of silver that he threw on the floor of the temple in Matthew 27. Then he splatted on his new place, and his guts came out.

So when's the next council, and am I invited?

[SkyDancer]

Ok, you're invited ... I loved your explanation .... could it be that he gave the money away (or threw it away?) then he went and hung himself??

Whatever the circumstances I hardly think he had time to write anything much less a gospel of many pages ... but then the Bible is loaded with time compressions ... so, he could have felt remorse, gave the money away to someone who bought a graveyard or whatever, then went and hung himself ... could have happened within hours, don't you think?

Respectfully,
Jane