The Suicide of Judas Iscariot

3 Then when* Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted what he had done* and* returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by* betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”* 5 And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away and* hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests took the silver coins and* said, “It is not permitted to put them into the temple treasury, because it is ⌊blood money⌋.”a 7 And after* taking counsel, they purchased ⌊with⌋b them the Potter’s Field, for a burial place for strangers. 8 (For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.) 9 Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, “And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel, 10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, just as the Lord directed me.”c