Matthew 27:5-10

The Message

⁵ Judas threw the silver coins into the Temple and left. Then he went out and hung himself.

^6-10 The high priests picked up the silver pieces, but then didn’t know what to do with them. “It wouldn’t be right to give this—a payment for murder!—as an offering in the Temple.” They decided to get rid of it by buying the “Potter’s Field” and use it as a burial place for the homeless. That’s how the field got called “Murder Meadow,” a name that has stuck to this day. Then Jeremiah’s words became history:

And so they unwittingly followed the divine instructions to the letter.