¹⁵ and said, ‘What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you? ’ So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.^(A)

Judas Hangs Himself

³ Then Judas, his betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was full of remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.^{(A) 4} ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,’ he said.

‘What’s that to us? ’ they said. ‘See to it yourself! ’ ⁵ So he threw the silver into the temple^(B) and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

⁶ The chief priests took the silver and said, ‘It’s not permitted^(C) to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.’ ⁷ They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. ⁸ Therefore that field has been called ‘Field of Blood’ to this day. ⁹ Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: They took^[a]the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him whose price was set by the Israelites, ¹⁰ and they gave^[b]them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.^[c](D)