1When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

2And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

3Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

4saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."

5And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

6But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money."

7So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.

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

9Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,

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