1 Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders made their plans against Jesus to put him to death.
2 They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.
3 When Judas, the traitor, learnt that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
4 “I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!” he said.“What do we care about that?” they answered. “That is your business!”
5 Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the temple treasury.”
7 After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.