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How did Judas Iscariot die? It depends which book you ask. Matthew has him hang himself while the priests buy the potter's field; Acts has Judas buy the field himself and then burst open in it — and a second-century bishop named Papias tells it weirder still, with Judas swelling up bigger than a house. We dig into why the accounts refuse to line up, how Matthew reshaped the story to "fulfill" a prophecy in Zechariah (which he pins on the wrong prophet), and why "not technically impossible" is the shakiest bar in all of apologetics.
(This episode originally aired on July 17, 2023)
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 The Final Villain: Judas
1:08 Judas's Death in Acts
2:14 The Field of Blood
3:11 Did He Swell and Pop?
4:51 Judas's Death in Matthew
6:37 The Shorter Reading Wins
8:15 Wrong Prophet (It's Zechariah)
9:49 Matthew Rewrites for Prophecy
10:25 Harmonizing the Unharmonizable
12:14 The "Not Impossible" Bar
15:33 Jesus on Two Donkeys
17:52 Papias's Exploding Judas
20:44 Thirty Pieces of Silver
21:14 Wrap-Up & Outro
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #JudasIscariot #FieldOfBlood #Zechariah
How did Judas Iscariot die? It depends which book you ask. Matthew has him hang himself while the priests buy the potter's field; Acts has Judas buy the field himself and then burst open in it — and a second-century bishop named Papias tells it weirder still, with Judas swelling up bigger than a house. We dig into why the accounts refuse to line up, how Matthew reshaped the story to "fulfill" a prophecy in Zechariah (which he pins on the wrong prophet), and why "not technically impossible" is the shakiest bar in all of apologetics.
(This episode originally aired on July 17, 2023)
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Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store:
data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com
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Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron:
patreon.com/DataOverDogma
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Listen to the podcast on every app:
pod.link/1681418502
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Follow us:
Instagram — instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod
TikTok — tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod
Threads — threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod
X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma
Facebook — facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod
_______________________________________________
Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So:
static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466
_______________________________________________
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 The Final Villain: Judas
1:08 Judas's Death in Acts
2:14 The Field of Blood
3:11 Did He Swell and Pop?
4:51 Judas's Death in Matthew
6:37 The Shorter Reading Wins
8:15 Wrong Prophet (It's Zechariah)
9:49 Matthew Rewrites for Prophecy
10:25 Harmonizing the Unharmonizable
12:14 The "Not Impossible" Bar
15:33 Jesus on Two Donkeys
17:52 Papias's Exploding Judas
20:44 Thirty Pieces of Silver
21:14 Wrap-Up & Outro
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #JudasIscariot #FieldOfBlood #Zechariah
