Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast when we're trying to figure out what the deal is Judas Iscariot?

Why is he jerk? Why would he sell out his friend? And what we've, I think, come to

conclude is that it's very unlikely that Judas Iskariot sold out Jesus just because he really liked money.

He got paid somewhere between very modest money if we count it in terms of just 30

coins of silver value given the coins that would have been in circulation at that time

I mean we're talking like really modest money like a hundred to three hundred bucks if we just go with the modern equivalent of the silver value.

If we go with the trading currency value of the time, you could maybe make a case for upwards

of $9,000, equivalent to, as I record this, June of 2022, modern American money,

but it still just doesn't seem like enough. That said, I've had a couple of

conversations in the interim as we've been talking about this whole Judas and

money thing that deserves a brief little sidetrack to go and track it down.

And this is going to require us to skip ahead in the narrative, but you know what?

We're on the trail of a mystery, and so we're going to skip ahead in the narrative a little bit.

Some of you have rightly noted that the Bible talks about Judas taking that money

in the Luke and Act's account and using it to buy a field.

That's got to be in Acts 1, right?

Hacks 1, Acts 1, acts 1.

Okay, they replaced Judas with Matthias here's where they clarify it

verse 18 of acts one with the reward he Judas got for his wickedness Judas bought a

field there he fell headlong his body burst open and all for his

body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Yes, we are going to talk about the

whole intestine body burst open thing a whole bunch more. That is obviously

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