Bible verse
So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
Matthew 27:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Matthew 27.
1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.
2 They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.
3 When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
4 “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
7 After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
9 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,
KJV
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
ASV
And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
ERV
And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
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