seekeroftruth
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Matthew 27:1 Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. 2 So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. 4 “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”
“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
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.”
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Here's a link to the commentary I read this morning.They led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate: The Sanhedrin gave Jesus over to Pontius Pilate, the Roman appointed governor over Judea, because they did not have the authority to put Him to death.
Was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver: Judas was filled with remorse, not repentance. Even though he knew exactly what he did (I have sinned by betraying innocent blood), Judas was more sorry for the result of his sin than for the sin itself. There is a huge difference in being sorry about sin, and being sorry for sin.
By throwing the money into the temple (the “naos, properly the inner sanctuary, where only the priests were allowed to go” according to France), Judas wanted to implicate the priests in his crime. It was his way of saying, “You also are guilty of this.”
It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood: The hypocrisy of the chief priests was transparent. They didn’t want to defile themselves with the price of blood, even though it was a price that they themselves paid.
Went and hanged himself: In his unrepentant remorse and despair, Judas committed suicide. Being the son of perdition (John 17:12), we are assured he went to eternal punishment.
Some hold that Matthew’s account of Judas’ death is at variance with Acts 1:18-19, which says that Judas fell headlong into a field, burst open in the middle, and all his entrails gushed out. Most reconcile this by suggesting that Judas hanged himself, and then his body was cast down on the ground, bursting open.
“If Judas hanged himself, no Jew would want to defile himself during the Feast of Unleavened Bread by burying the corpse; and a hot sun might have brought on rapid decomposition till the body fell to the ground and burst open.” (Carson)
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So, who started the fake churches? When I was a kid, I thought Judas was the one who would have started fake churches. After all he sold Jesus out. Now, I'm older, been through the Bible a few times, and I know it wasn't Judas.
Also, for a lot of years, I've heard of some kind of controversy about whether Judas hung himself or he burst open [act of God thing]. Well, I think the explanation at the end of the commentary posting this morning solves that question quite clearly.
So, It wasn't Judas who started the fake church.
However, John called Judas the Son of Perdition. Perdition means the final state of ruin or punishment. There are only two characters in the Bible who were called "Son of Perdition". That was Judas and the Anti-Christ.
I'm looking for the human who started the "Apostate Church".
So, I figure, if I go back to the crucifixion of Jesus in the four Gospels and then go through Acts and the letters, I'll get a better picture.
So, Matthew is the first Book of the New Testament. Matthew was one of Jesus' disciples. He had been a tax collector who quit to become one of Jesus' inner circle.
The word "Apostate" means "a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle" or "abandoning a religious or political belief or principle".
Well, it wasn't Judas. Although he was definitely an Apostate, he didn't live long enough to spread a fake gospel.
While Judas was "Apostate" and called "Son of Perdition" by Jesus' best human friend, John, he is not the person who started the Apostate [fake] church.
Judas didn't do it!
