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Judas died by falling off a cliff with his intestines spilling out.
Acts 1:18 does not say Judas fell off a cliff. The verse says he "fell headlong" and burst open, but it does not mention any cliff.
Full reasoning
This sentence adds a detail that is not in Acts 1:18. The verse says Judas "fell headlong" and that his body burst open, but it does not say he fell off a cliff.
That matters because the article presents the cliff as if it were part of the biblical text: "according to the book of Acts 1:18, it says..." But the cited passage does not say that. "Fell headlong" can be translated in several English versions as falling headfirst or face down, yet none of the cited standard translations in the source mention a cliff.
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- Acts 1:18
"there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out."
- Acts 1:18 - ESV.org
"(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out."
a Coptic papyrus manuscript titled the Gospel of Judas from 200 AD was translated
The surviving Coptic manuscript was not from 200 AD. National Geographic reported that the codex dates to the third or fourth century AD, while the original Greek text is thought to be earlier.
Full reasoning
This wording confuses the date of the surviving manuscript with the date of the earlier underlying text. National Geographic's 2006 report on the publication states that the only known surviving copy of the Gospel of Judas was found in a codex that dates to the third or fourth century A.D. It separately says the Coptic document is believed to translate an earlier Greek text written sometime before A.D. 180.
So describing the manuscript itself as "from 200 AD" is incorrect. The physical Coptic manuscript is later than that, even if the original composition may be second-century.
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- Lost Gospel of Judas Revealed | National Geographic
"The only known surviving copy of the gospel was found in a codex... that dates back to the third or fourth century A.D. The newly revealed gospel document, written in Coptic script, is believed to be a translation of the original, a Greek text written... sometime before A.D. 180."