Matthew 27
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Matthew 27:3-9

3Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

4saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

5So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

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

7After consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

8For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day.

9Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,

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