Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, |I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.|
But they said, |What is that to us? See thou to it.|
And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, |It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.| And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, |The field of blood,| unto this day.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, |And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.|