Matthew 27:4-14

4 He said, "I've sinned by betraying an innocent man." They replied, "What do we care? That's your problem."
5 So he threw the money into the temple, went away, and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests took the money and said, "It's not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it's blood money."
7 So they decided to use it to buy a potter's field for the burial of strangers.
8 That's why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.
9 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,
10 and used the coins to buy a potter's field, as the Lord had directed me."
11 Jesus stood in front of the governor, [Pilate]. The governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "Yes, I am," Jesus answered.
12 While the chief priests and leaders were accusing him, he said nothing.
13 Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear how many charges they're bringing against you?"
14 But Jesus said absolutely nothing to him in reply, so the governor was very surprised.
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