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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,
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When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
4 saying, "I have sinned [by] betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What [is that] to us? You see to [it]!"
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“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
5 And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.
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So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then 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}."
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The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
7 And [after] taking counsel, they purchased {with} them the Potter's Field, for a burial place for strangers.
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So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
8 (For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.)
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That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
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,
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Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel,
10 and they gave them for the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me."
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and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
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