What did Judas do after he betrayed innocent blood?
After admitting to the chief priest that he had betrayed innocent blood, Judas cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, departed, and went and hanged himself, as recorded in verse 5. The sequence is confession, casting down the silver, departure, and suicide.
Les explains that Judas had just gone to the chief priest and admitted he had betrayed innocent blood. Then, in verse 5, he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, departed, and went and hanged himself. The transcript then connects this hanging to Deuteronomy 21:22-23, where a man hanged on a tree is not to remain all night but is to be buried that day, for he that is hanged is accursed of God. That explains why the Jews were in such a hurry to get Jesus off the cross.
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
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