and they bound Him and led Him away, and (A)handed Him over to (B)Pilate the governor.

Then when (C)Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned (D)the thirty [a]pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? (E)You shall see to it yourself!” And he threw the pieces of silver into (F)the temple sanctuary and left; and (G)he went away and hanged himself. The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them in the temple treasury, since it is money paid for blood.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:3 Or silver shekels

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