Matthew 27:3-9

Living Bible

³ About that time Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus had been condemned to die, changed his mind and deeply regretted what he had done,^[a] and brought back the money to the chief priests and other Jewish leaders.

⁴ “I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.”

“That’s your problem,” they retorted.

⁵ Then he threw the money onto the floor of the Temple and went out and hanged himself. ⁶ The chief priests picked the money up. “We can’t put it in the collection,” they said, “since it’s against our laws to accept money paid for murder.”

⁷ They talked it over and finally decided to buy a certain field where the clay was used by potters, and to make it into a cemetery for foreigners who died in Jerusalem. ⁸ That is why the cemetery is still called “The Field of Blood.”

⁹ This fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah which says,

“They took the thirty pieces of silver—the price at which he was valued by the people of Israel—