Matthew 27:1-10

Jesus Delivered to Pilate

1 ¹When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people ²took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

2 And they bound him and ³led him away and ⁴delivered him over to ⁵Pilate the governor.

Judas Hangs Himself

3 Then when ⁶Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus^[a] was condemned, ⁷he changed his mind and brought back ⁸the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. ” They said, “What is that to us? ⁹See to it yourself. ”

5 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, ¹⁰he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

6 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into ¹¹the treasury, since it is blood money. ”

7 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.

8 Therefore ¹²that field has been called the Field of Blood ¹³to this day.

9 ¹⁴Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ¹⁵“And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,

10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me. ”