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Matthew has him seized with remorse when he saw that Jesus was condemned, throwing the thirty pieces into the temple and going out to hang himself, and has the priests buy the potter's field with money they could not lawfully put in the treasury. Acts has Peter say he bought a field himself, and fell headlong in it, and burst open. The two accounts agree on almost nothing except the field and its name — Akeldama, the Field of Blood — and the church has never reconciled them, though it has been trying since Papias. They are set side by side here rather than harmonised. The role is reposed and not victim: he is not a martyr, and this is the one death in this dataset that no tradition commemorates on any day of any calendar.
The Twelve are eleven, and the vacancy that Acts 1 fills.
Acts 1 — the other account (ESV) · Matthew 27 — read it (ESV)