Daily Discovery Bible Study

1 Early in the morning all the chief priests and elders of the people consulted together and decided to have Jesus put to death.2 They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

3 When Judas, the one who'd betrayed Jesus, saw that Jesus had been condemned to death, he regretted what he'd done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.4 “I've sinned! I've betrayed innocent blood!” he told them.

“What's that got to do with us?” they replied. “That's your problem!” 5 Judas threw the silver coins into the sanctuary and left. He went away and hanged himself.6 The chief priests took the silver coins and said, “This is blood money, so it's not lawful to put this in the Temple treasury.”7 So they agreed to buy the potter's field as a place to bury foreigners.8 That's why the field is still called today the “Field of Blood.”9 This fulfilled the prophecy spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: “They took thirty silver coins—the ‘value’ of the one who was bought at the price set by some of the children of Israel—10 and used them to pay for the potter's field, just as the Lord instructed me to do.”

Matthew 27: 1-10