[27:3] When Judas, the traitor, learned that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.
[27:4] “I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!” he said. “What do we care about that?” they answered. “That is your business!”
[27:5] Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.
[27:6] The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the Temple treasury.”
[27:7] After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.
[27:8] That is why that field is called “Field of Blood” to this very day.
[27:9] Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: “They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,
[27:10] and used the money to buy the potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me.”