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When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death;
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and they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pilate the governor.
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When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,
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saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."
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And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.
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But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money."
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So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.