27Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death. ²They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

The Death of Judas

³^*When Judas, the traitor, learnt that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the 30 silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. ⁴^*“I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!” he said.

“What do we care about that?” they answered. “That is your business!”

⁵^*Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

⁶^*The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the temple treasury.” ⁷^*After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter’s Field, as a cemetery for foreigners. ⁸^*That is why that field is called “Field of Blood” to this very day.

⁹^*Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: “They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him, ¹⁰^*and used the money to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord had commanded me.”

Pilate Questions Jesus

¹¹Jesus stood before the Roman governor, who questioned him. “Are you the king of the Jews?” he asked.

“So you say,” answered Jesus. ¹²But he said nothing in response to the accusations of the chief priests and elders.

¹³So Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear all these things they accuse you of?”

¹⁴But Jesus refused to answer a single word, with the result that the Governor was greatly surprised.

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Cross references

*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.3–8: Ac 1:18, 19
*27.9, 10: Zec 11:12, 13
*27.9, 10: Zec 11:12, 13