Matthew 27:2-14

2After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

3Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

4“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”

5So he threw the silver into the temple and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

6The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not permitted to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

7They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

8Therefore that field has been called “Field of Blood” to this day.

9Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him whose price was set by the Israelites,

10and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.

11Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are you the king of the Jews?” the governor asked him. Jesus answered, “You say so.”

12While he was being accused by the chief priests and elders, he didn’t answer.

13Then Pilate said to him, “Don’t you hear how much they are testifying against you?”

14But he didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was quite amazed.