Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
New International Version NIV
1 When the morning was come, all the princes of the priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death,
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Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.
2 and when they had bound him, they led <em>him</em> away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
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So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, who had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the princes of the priests and the elders,
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When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
4 saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What <em>is that</em> to us? Thou shalt see <em>to it</em>.
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“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
5 And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself.
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So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
6 And the princes of the priests taking the silver pieces, said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury because it is the price of blood.
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The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
7 And they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers in.
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So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
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