saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”
But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 27:4 in context
Matthew 27:1–7
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Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
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They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
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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,
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saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”
But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
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He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.
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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.
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