Thematic Bible: Chief priests bribe judas
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They were delighted to hear it, and promised to pay him for it. So he kept looking for a good opportunity to betray Him to them.
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and said, "What will you give me to turn Him over to you?" Then they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
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Then Judas, who had betrayed Him, as he felt condemned, in remorse brought back the thirty pieces to the high priests and elders, and said, "I did wrong in turning an innocent man over to death." But they said, "What is that to us? You must see to that yourself." Then he tossed the money into the temple and left, and went off and hanged himself. read more.
The high priests picked up the money and said, "It is not legal to put it into the consecrated treasury, for it is blood money." So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burying-ground for strangers. Now this piece of ground has ever since been called "The Field of Blood." In that way the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been fixed by some Israelites,
The high priests picked up the money and said, "It is not legal to put it into the consecrated treasury, for it is blood money." So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burying-ground for strangers. Now this piece of ground has ever since been called "The Field of Blood." In that way the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been fixed by some Israelites,
They were delighted and made a bargain to pay him for it.
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