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Matthew 27:5-15

5 Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the Temple treasury."

6 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 After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

8 That is why that field is called "Field of Blood" to this very day.

8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

9 Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: "They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel,

10 and used the money to buy the potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me."

10 and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”

11 Jesus stood before the Roman governor, who questioned him. "Are you the king of the Jews?" he asked. "So you say," answered Jesus.

11 Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.

12 But he said nothing in response to the accusations of the chief priests and elders.

12 When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer.

13 So Pilate said to him, "Don't you hear all these things they accuse you of?"

13 Then Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?”

14 But Jesus refused to answer a single word, with the result that the Governor was greatly surprised.

14 But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.

15 At every Passover Festival the Roman governor was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the crowd asked for.

15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.