4. He said, “I’ve sinned by betraying an innocent man.”They replied, “What do we care? That’s your problem.”
5. So he threw the money into the temple, went away, and hanged himself.
6. The chief priests took the money and said, “It’s not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it’s blood money.”
7. So they decided to use it to buy a potter’s field for the burial of strangers.
8. That’s why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.