Judas’s Remorse

1 aNow when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;

2 and they bound Him, and led Him away and adelivered Him to bPilate the governor.

3 Then when aJudas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned bthe thirty 1pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? aSee to that yourself!”

5 And he threw the pieces of silver into athe temple sanctuary and departed; and bhe went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

7 And they conferred together and 1with the money bought the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

8 aFor this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “aAnd 1they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been set by the sons of Israel;

10 aand 1they gave them for the Potter’s Field, as the Lord directed me.”