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- Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
- They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.
- When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
- "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility."
- So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
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- 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."
- So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.
- That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
- Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel,
- and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."
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- Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" "Yes, it is as you say," Jesus replied.
- When he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he gave no answer.
- Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear the testimony they are bringing against you?"
- But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge--to the great amazement of the governor.
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