Section 132, The remorse and death of Judas

Section 132
REMORSE AND SUICIDE OF JUDAS
(In the temple and outside the wall of Jerusalem. Friday morning.)
MATT. 27:3-10
ACTS 1:18, 19

Summary--The dark tale of Judas. In the end, he was but a pawn of the priests and elders.

"Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind [repented] and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” Matthew 27:3-4

metamellomai
met-am-el'-lom-ahee
From G3326 and the middle of G3199; to care afterwards, that is, regret: - repent (self).

"But mere sorrow avails nothing unless it leads to change of mind and life (metanoia), the sorrow according to God (2Co_7:9). This sorrow Peter had when he wept bitterly. It led Peter back to Christ. But Judas had only remorse that led to suicide."-RWP

"But the testimony of Judas, in the free, untechnical court of public opinion, is of vast weight and importance. It shows that one who had every opportunity of knowing Jesus, and who was sordid enough to betray him, was yet forced for conscience' sake to admit that there was no reason why he should have done so."-Fourfold Gospel

"And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."

"The law of God made no provision as to the uses of blood money; it was the tradition of the elders which thus forbade to put it into the treasury. Theirs was a strange conscience indeed, which could take out the Lord's money (and, under the then existing Jewish theocratic government, all public money was the Lord's money) and spend it for blood, but when it was so spent they could not put it back!" -Fourfold

"The field of blood. Aceldama (Act_1:19), the Syriac name. It was so called (διοÌ) from the circumstances attending its purchase, which gave it an evil notoriety, and which the priests must have divulged. "This also," says Chrysostom, taking the blood to be that of Jesus, "became a witness against them, and a proof of their treason. For the name of the place more clearly than a trumpet proclaimed their blood guiltiness."-Pulpit Commentary