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Early in the morning all the chief priests and the leaders of the people decided to execute Jesus.
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They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
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Then Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the 30 silver coins back to the chief priests and leaders.
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He said, "I've sinned by betraying an innocent man." They replied, "What do we care? That's your problem."
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So he threw the money into the temple, went away, and hanged himself.
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The chief priests took the money and said, "It's not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it's blood money."
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So they decided to use it to buy a potter's field for the burial of strangers.
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That's why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.
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Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true, "They took the 30 silver coins, the price the people of Israel had placed on him,
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and used the coins to buy a potter's field, as the Lord had directed me."