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When morning came all the High Priests and the Elders of the people consulted together against Jesus to put Him to death;
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and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor.
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Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He was condemned, smitten with remorse he brought back the thirty shekels to the High Priests and Elders
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and said, "I have sinned, in betraying to death one who is innocent." "What does that matter to us?" they replied; it is your business."
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Flinging the shekels into the Sanctuary he left the place, and went and hanged himself.
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When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."
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So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;
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for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'
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Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, "And I took the thirty shekels, the price of the prized one on whom Israelites had set a price,