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The Book of Matthew, Chapter 27, Verse 2

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When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
King James Version
And when they had bound him, they led [him] away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
American Standard Version
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.
New English Translation
So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
World English Bible
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
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Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see thou [to that].
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And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
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And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
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Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
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And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.
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And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, ‹Thou sayest.›
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And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.