and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Jesus over to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver.

When Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was gripped with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,

And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary, he left; and went away and hanged himself.

The chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put these in the treasury [of the temple], because it is the price of blood.”

So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

Then the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet were fulfilled: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel;