Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Matthew 27:4-9 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? look thou to it.

5. And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: and went and hanged himself with an halter.

6. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

7. And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

8. For this cause the field was called Haceldama, that is, The field of blood, even to this day.

9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was prized, whom they prized of the children of Israel.