Thursday, May 10, 2012

In the News-playing Judas goes wrong in Brazil

"A Brazilian actor who accidently hanged himself while playing Judas in a suicide scene for The Passion of Christ has died, the Associated Press reports.
The BBC reports that Tiago Klimeck, 27, was hanging for four minutes before fellow performers realized something was wrong.
He performed the role on Good Friday in Itarare, about 215 miles from Sao Paulo, and has been in a coma ever since.
Police are investigating the apparatus used in the scene, the BBC says. It appears that the knot may have been erroneously tied." ONDeadline/USA TODAY

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. Matthew 27:3-5