Matthew 27:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Matthew 27:1 NIV
Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed.
Matthew 27:2 NIV
So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
Matthew 27:3 NIV
When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders.
Matthew 27:4 NIV
“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”
Matthew 27:5 NIV
So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Matthew 27:6 NIV
The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
Matthew 27:7 NIV
So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
Matthew 27:8 NIV
That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
Matthew 27:9 NIV
Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel
Matthew 27:10 NIV
and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”





