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Supposed Contradiction: Judas Iscariot

Skeptics love to throw supposed Bible contradictions in the faces of their Christian friends or family. Many of them are quite pitiful and require only a few seconds of thought or a quick review of the context of the passages to refute. However, there are some that require a little more thought or in-depth study to resolve. The two accounts of the circumstances surrounding Judas’s death found in the gospels and Acts are somewhere in the middle of this scale of difficulty in my opinion. Here is how a skeptic is likely to word this challenge:

“Did Judas hang himself, or did he fall to his death? The Bible says both!”

Let’s take a look at the passages in question here and consider a few things

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