web - Matthew:27:1-10

web@Matthew:27:1 @ Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

web@Matthew:27:2 @ and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

web@Matthew:27:3 @ Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

web@Matthew:27:4 @ saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

web@Matthew:27:5 @ He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

web@Matthew:27:6 @ 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."

web@Matthew:27:7 @ They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in.

web@Matthew:27:8 @ Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

web@Matthew:27:9 @ Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah {some manuscripts omit "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,

web@Matthew:27:10 @ and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me." {Zechariah strkjv@11:12-13; Jeremiah strkjv@19:1-13; strkjv@32:6-9}