6. The chief priests picked up the money and said, “This money was paid to have a man killed. We can't put it in the temple treasury.”
7. Then they had a meeting and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners.
8. That's why people still call that place “Field of Blood”.
9. So the words of the prophet Jeremiah came true,“They tookthe thirty silver coins,the price of a personamong the people of Israel.
10. They paid itfor a potter's field,as the Lordhad commanded me.”
11. Jesus was brought before Pilate the governor, who asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”“Those are your words!” Jesus answered.
12. And when the chief priests and leaders brought their charges against him, he did not say a thing.