[Holy Week]: #18; Judas' End

   When morning came, all the chief priests
and elders of the people plotted against Jesus
to put Him to death. And when they had bound
Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to
Pontius Pilate the governor.
   Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had
been condemned, was remorseful and brought
back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests
and elders, saying, "I have sinned by betraying
innocent blood."
   And they said, "What is that to us? You see to
it!"
   Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the
temple and departed, and went and hanged him-
self.
   But the chief priests took the silver pieces and
said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury,
because they are the price of blood." And they
consulted together and bought with them the pot-
ter's field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field
has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
   Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah
the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces
of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom
they of the children of Israel priced, and gave them
for the potter's field, as the LORD directed me."

Matthew 27:1-10