Matthew 27:3-10

Judas Hangs Himself

3 Then when ¹Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus^[a] was condemned, ²he changed his mind and brought back ³the 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? ⁴See to it yourself."

5 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, ⁵he 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 ⁶the 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 ⁷that field has been called the Field of Blood ⁸to this day.

9 ⁹Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, ¹⁰"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."

Cross References

• 1. See Matthew 26:14
• 2. Matthew 21:29
• 3. Matthew 26:15
• 4. ver. 24
• 5. [2 Samuel 17:23; Acts 1:18]
• 6. Mark 12:41, 43; Luke 21:1; John 8:20
• 7. Acts 1:19
• 8. Matthew 28:15
• 9. See Matthew 1:22
• 10. Cited from Zechariah 11:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek he