Matthew 27:1-13 ▼

1 Early in the morning all the chief priests and the leaders of the people decided to execute Jesus.

2 They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

3 Then Judas, who had betrayed Jesus, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the 30 silver coins back to the chief priests and leaders.

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?|