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1 As soon as it was day, all the chief priests and senators of the people consulted measures against Jesus how they might put him to death. 2 and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor of Judea. 3 At the same time, Judas who had betrayed him, finding that he was condemned, repented, and carried back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and senators, saying, 4 I have sinned in betraying the blood of the innocent: and they said, what is it to us? you must look to that. 5 then throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself. 6 but the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 and having consulted together, they laid out the money in buying the potter's field, to serve for a burying place for strangers. 8 for this reason the field is called the field of blood to this day. Matthew 27:1-8, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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