mnt - Matthew:27:1-10

mnt@Matthew:27:1 @ And when the morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, how they might put him to death.

mnt@Matthew:27:2 @ After they had bound him, they led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman Governor.

mnt@Matthew:27:3 @ Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

mnt@Matthew:27:4 @ "I have sinned," he said, "in betraying innocent blood!" "What is that to us?" they answered; "you must see to that."

mnt@Matthew:27:5 @ And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.

mnt@Matthew:27:6 @ The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."

mnt@Matthew:27:7 @ So after the consultation they bought the Potters Field with it, for a burial-place for strangers.

mnt@Matthew:27:8 @ That is the reason why, to this day, the field is called "The Field of Blood."

mnt@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled the word spoken by the prophet Jeremiah. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who had been priced, whom certain of the Children of Israel had priced;

mnt@Matthew:27:10 @ and gave them for the Potters Field, as the Lord had appointed me.