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Now when morning had come, 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 up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
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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 priests 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 Jeremiah 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 Israel did price,
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and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."
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Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said to him, "So you say."