Acts 1:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Purchased a field; which Judas might have agreed for at that price, and yet the chief priests bought, \as Matthew 27:7\ by a strange providence, leading of them to that purchase; howsoever, eventually he bought it, as throwing back to them their money which paid for it, Matthew 27:5. Falling headlong, he burst asunder; it is said he hanged himself, which implying only his death by suffocation, whether he died out of horror of his fact, or laying violent hands on himself in such circumstances as may agree with this relation, it is not material to determine.