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“I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.”

“What do we care?” they retorted. “That’s your problem.”

Then Judas threw the silver coins down in the Temple and went out and hanged himself.

The leading priests picked up the coins. “It wouldn’t be right to put this money in the Temple treasury,” they said, “since it was payment for murder.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 27:6 Greek since it is the price for blood.

“I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”(A)

So Judas threw the money into the temple(B) and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.(C)

The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

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