Matthew 27:3-10
3 When Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was gripped with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,(A)
4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They replied, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!”
5 And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary, he left; and went away and (a)hanged himself.
6 The chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put these in the treasury [of the temple], because it is the price of blood.”
7 So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.
8 Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
9 Then the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet were fulfilled: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel;(B)
10 and they gave them for the Potter’s Field, as the Lord directed me.”(C)
Footnotes:
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Matthew 27:5: Possibly people later threw Judas’ body over the cliff into the Valley of Hinnom where his body was mangled on the rocks below (Acts 1:18). Suicides were not given a proper burial.