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Then they put him in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
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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."
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Hurling the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, he left; then he went off and hanged himself.
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The head cohanim took the silver coins and said, "It is prohibited to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money."
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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.
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Then what Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke was fulfilled, "And they took the thirty silver coins, which was the price the people of Isra'el had agreed to pay for him,
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and used them to buy the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me."
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Meanwhile, Yeshua was brought before the governor, and the governor put this question to him: "Are you the King of the Jews?" Yeshua answered, "The words are yours."
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But when he was accused by the head cohanim and elders, he gave no answer.