4. saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
5. And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.
6. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
7. So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.
8. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.