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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Matthew 27:6 in context
Matthew 27:3–9
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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.”
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They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.
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Therefore that field has been called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
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Then that which was spoken through 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,
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