What happened to the person who betrayed Jesus?

Answer 1

A:The person the gospels say betrayed Jesus was Judas Iscariot. There are two diammetrically opposed narratives in the New Testament as to what happened to Judas afterwards.

Matthew 27:3-5 says that Judas repented of what he had done and took the thirty pieces of silver back to the Temple and cast them down at the priests. He then went away and committed suicide.

In Acts of the Apostles, at Acts 1:19, Judas was no doubt pleased to be suddenly rich, and purchased a field with the money he had received. Unfortunately for him, he fell down and died, his bowels gushing out.

In spite of their differences, both stories tell a satisfyingly terrible fate for Judas, and neither is considered likely to be historically true.

Another Answer:

Judas was deeply remorseful at his failed plan to force Jesus to become a powerful force and stop Roman domination of the Jews. He simply did not understand the 'Passover Lamb' mission of Jesus' first coming. He hung himself against the law.

In Acts 1:18-20, it begins parenthetically about the purchase of a field with the 30 pieces of silver Judas received for his betrayal. But many biblical scholars, especially writing in the New King James state that the field was actually purchased by the priest (transactions take time and not just several hours even in the 1st Century) after Judas had hung himself like Matthew 27:6-8 notes:

Matthew 27:6-8New King James Version (NKJV)

6 But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood." 7 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.8Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.