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Now when morning had come, all the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim of the people took counsel against Yeshua to put him to death:
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and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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Then Yehudah, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief Kohanim and Zakenim,
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saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."
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He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
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The chief Kohanim took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood."
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They took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.
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Then that which was spoken through Yirmeyahu the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "They took the thirty pieces of silver, The price on him upon whom a price had been set, Whom some of the children of Yisra'el priced,