Lexham English Bible

Matthew 27:6-14 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

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.

8. (For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.)

9. Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, “And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel,

10. and they gave them for the potter’s field, just as the Lord directed me.”

11. So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said, “You say so.”

12. And when he was being accused by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing.

13. Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?”

14. And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished.