1 When morning came, aall the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.
2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and adelivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Judas Hangs Himself
3aThen Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty bpieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” And they said, “What isthat to us? You see toit!”
5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and adeparted, and went and hanged himself.
6 But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood.”
7 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
8 Therefore that field has been called athe Field of Blood to this day.
9 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, a“And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced,
10 and agave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”
Jesus Faces Pilate
11 Now Jesus stood before the governor. aAnd the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, b“It is as you say.”
12 And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, aHe answered nothing.
Delivered him up to Pilate the governor (paredwkan Peilatw tw hgemoni). What they had done was all a form and a farce. Pilate had the power of death, but they had greatly enjoyed the condemnation and the buffeting of Jesus now in their power bound as a condemned criminal. He was no longer the master of assemblies in the temple, able to make the Sanhedrin cower before him. He had been bound in the garden and was bound before Annas (John 18:12, John 18:24), but may have been unbound before Caiaphas.
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