Did Judas hang himself or explode?

It's not made up because it was written in the Holy Scriptures! The Bible is always right! Jesus is King... Queen... the Almighty Spirit of the Holy Moly! The Trinity of Apple Pie, Ice Cream, and Coffee! Praise to Judas for being a snitch, realizing it, then hanging himself... probably going to hell, no? Hell... if ye only existed... if Sin were the only truth... if Faith was for the numb-numbs...

Judas Hanging

It appears that it is the same account. The combination of the accounts just need to be taken into consideration. It seems as though Judas tried to hang himself over a cliff and then something happened so that he fell to burst open on the rocks below. While Matthew writes about THE WAY that Judas took his life, Acts describes THE RESULT of it.

BOTH are correct. No contradiction.

He hung himself, the rope broke at some stage and the body fell down the cliff causing his bowels to "gush out"

My opinion was that he was left hanging until the rope rotted away and the rotting corpse fell down the cliff and his maggot infested bowels burst out. The details are not important though.

KJV really isn't the best translation for this. Realize that the Jews realized children would be hearing/reading this, so some things they kind of "sanitized" (you'll see references to shaving people's feet - it's not their feet, but their testicles that are being shaved).

Judas hung himself. When one hangs oneself, one "falls", the fall being broken by reaching the end of one's rope. Executioners generally arrange hangings so that the neck is snapped, but when someone is hanging themselves, they often do something like climb a tree, tie the rope and jump. There can be enough whiplash effect to say rip open one's abdomen, etc. Alternatively, when you die, you go into rigamortus, and the body (particularly in the heat of a desert area, like Israel) can swell, to the point of bursting. At any rate the "falling" was part of hanging.

He did the Japanese code of harakiri, to die by slashing your stomach and after your bowels goes out, you stick your short sword inside and hang your body against a stone or ground so it will slide towards your heart. That's the meaning of judas hanging and the pool of blood that follows. That's one way to preserve your honor.

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As Matthew says, he hanged himself, then, many days later,

the rope broke and he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out

And I beginning to think that people who question the Bible don't even own one.

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I think the judas story in the bible is a horrible example of foreshadowing on the part of the fictional jesus according to this story he did not have free will

Instead of finding reason not to believe, how about finding actual reasoning to believe.

Dead guy hanging in the sun for a day and you get exploding guts.