Matthew 27:1–9
1Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.↗
2They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.↗
3Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,↗
4saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”↗
5He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.↗
6The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”↗
7They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.↗
8Therefore that field has been called “The Field of Blood” to this day.↗
9Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him upon whom a price had been set, whom some of the children of Israel priced,↗
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