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When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.
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And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
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Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
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saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!"
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Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood."
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And they consulted together 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.