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Early in the morning, all the head cohanim and elders met to plan how to bring about Yeshua's death.
2
Then they put him in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3
When Y'hudah, who had betrayed him, saw that Yeshua had been condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the head cohanim and elders,
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saying, "I sinned in betraying an innocent man to death." "What is that to us?" they answered. "That's your problem."
5
Hurling the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, he left; then he went off and hanged himself.
6
The head cohanim took the silver coins and said, "It is prohibited to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."
7
So they decided to use it to buy the potter's field as a cemetery for foreigners.
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This is how it came to be called the Field of Blood, a name it still bears.