1. Now when it was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death.
2. And after tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3. Then when Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders,
4. saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!”
5. And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away and hanged himself.
6. But the chief priests took the silver coins and said, “It is not permitted to put them into the temple treasury, because it is blood money.”
7. And after taking counsel, they purchased with them the Potter’s Field, for a burial place for strangers.