Word: kerioth
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...have betrayed the innocent blood." When they shrugged and said, "What is that to us?," Judas threw down his 30 pieces of silver "and departed, and went and hanged himself." So later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone who might have known about the events had died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ...