Matthew 27:1–14

JESUS HANDED OVER TO PILATE

27When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put him to death.^{d 2}After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate,^D the governor.^e

JUDAS HANGS HIMSELF

³Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.^{f 4}“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!” ⁵So he threw the silver into the temple^g and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

⁶The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not permitted^h to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.” ⁷They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. ⁸Therefore that field has been called “Field of Blood” to this day. ⁹Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: They took^E the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him whose price was set by the Israelites, ¹⁰and they gave^A them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.^Bi

JESUS FACES THE GOVERNOR

¹¹Now Jesus stood before the governor.^j “Are you the king of the Jews?” the governor asked him.

Jesus answered, “You say so.”^{k 12}While he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he didn’t answer.^l

¹³Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you?” ¹⁴But he didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was quite amazed.^m