1. Early the next morning, all the leading priests and elders of the people decided to kill Jesus.
2. They tied him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate, the governor.
3. Judas saw that they had decided to kill Jesus. Judas was the one who gave Jesus to his enemies. When Judas saw what happened, he was very sorry for what he had done. So he took the 30 silver coins back to the priests and the leaders.
4. Judas said, “I sinned. I gave you an innocent man to be killed.”The leaders answered, “What is that to us? That’s your problem, not ours.”
5. So Judas threw the money into the Temple. Then he went off and hanged himself.
6. The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple. They said, “Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money. This money has paid for a man’s death.”
7. So they decided to use the coins to buy a field called Potter’s Field. This field would be a place to bury strangers who died while visiting Jerusalem.
8. That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood.
9. So the thing came true that Jeremiah the prophet had said: “They took 30 silver coins. That is how little the Israelites thought he was worth.
10. They used those 30 silver coins to buy Potter’s Field, as the Lord commanded me.”
11. Jesus stood before Pilate the governor. Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”Jesus answered, “Yes, I am.”
12. When the leading priests and the elders accused Jesus, he said nothing.
13. So Pilate said to Jesus, “Don’t you hear these people accusing you of all these things?”
14. But Jesus said nothing in answer to Pilate. Pilate was very surprised at this.