4 saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
7 They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.
8 Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,“They took the thirty pieces of silver,the price of him upon whom a price had been set,whom some of the children of Israel priced,
10 and they gave them for the potter’s field,as the Lord commanded me.”