3 When Judas, the one who’d betrayed Jesus, saw that Jesus had been condemned to death, he regretted what he’d done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. 4 "I’ve sinned! I’ve betrayed innocent blood!" he told them.
"What’s that got to do with us?" they replied. "That’s your problem!" 5 Judas threw the silver coins into the sanctuary and left. He went away and hanged himself. 6 The chief priests took the silver coins and said, "This is blood money, so it’s not lawful to put this in the Temple treasury." 7 So they agreed to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners.