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When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.
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They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
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When Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
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He said, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."
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Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.
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But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money."
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After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter's field as a place to bury foreigners.
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For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
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Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set, on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price,
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and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."