27 ¹ WHEN MORNING CAME, the chief priests and the elders of the nation met in conference to plan the death of Jesus. 27 ² They then put him in chains and led him away, to hand him over to Pilate, the Roman Governor.
- The Death of Judas  Mt.27.3-10 (Jerusalem)- Ac.1.18-19 | NEB Contents | notes

27 ³ When Judas the traitor saw that Jesus had been condemned, he was seized with remorse, and returned the thirty silver pieces to the chief priests and elders. 27 ⁴ 'I have sinned,' he said; 'I have brought an innocent man to his death.' But they said, 'What is that to us? 27 ⁵ See to that yourself.' So he threw the money down in the temple and left them, and went and hanged himself.
27 ⁶ Taking up the money, the chief priests argued: 'This cannot be put into the temple fund; it is blood-money.' 27 ⁷ So after conferring they used it to buy the Potter's Field, as a burial-place for foreigners. 27 ⁸ This explains the name 'Blood Acre', by which that field has been known ever since; 27 ^{9 [ Zch.11.12-13. ]} and in this way fulfilment was given to the prophetic utterance of Jeremiah: 'They took Or: I took. the thirty silver pieces, the price set on a man's head (for that was his price among the Israelites), 27 ¹⁰ and gave the money for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.'
- Jesus Questioned by Pilate  Mt.27.11-14 (Jerusalem)- Mk.15.2-5, Lk.23.3-5, Jn.18.33-38 | NEB Contents | notes

27 ¹¹ Jesus was now brought before the Governor; and as he stood there the Governor asked him, 'Are you the king of the Jews?' 'The words are yours' Or: It is as you say., said Jesus; 27 ¹² and to the charges laid against him by the chief priests and elders he made no reply. 27 ¹³ Then Pilate said to him, 'Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought against you?'; 27 ¹⁴ but he still refused to answer one word, to the Governor's great astonishment.