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.'