Judas Hangs Himself

Judas, seeing Jesus condemned, returns the silver and names his sin against innocent blood. He throws the money into the temple, hangs himself, and the priests use the pieces to buy the potter’s field for foreign burial. The field receives its name from the blood money, and the scene is linked to the prophetic word.

W³hen Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders. ⁴“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. ⁵So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself. ⁶The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.” ⁷After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. ⁸That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. ⁹Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: ¹⁰and they gave them for the potter’s field,