Matt 27:3 calls Judas "the betrayer". And v5 says that he went & hanged himself. Judas, the betrayer, died before the Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew himself, an eye-witness, & a co-apostle with Judas Iscariot who died in the 1st century. Scientists have established that carbon dating puts the date of writing of the Gospel of Judas at the 3rd or 4th century AD. Will somebody stand up to tell me if Judas hanged himself & died, did he also resurrect himself in the 3rd or 4th century to write his own gospel? In the aftermath of the controversies surrounding the Da Vinci Code & many proofs esatblishing that it is nothing but a work of the author's imagination, the Gnostic Gospels written much after the times of Christ & never accepted in the Cannon of the Church, are being given quite unneccary & undue importance. Ofcourse, the value to the press is immense! A lot of unregenerate authors have jumped onto the bandwagon to make a few quick bucks out of this but to me, Jesus Christ is real, He is my Saviour & no matter how much of a brouhaha is made, the ridiculous stands out.
