When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor. Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.”
took counsel against - Also found in Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1 and John 18:28.
Pontius Pilate - The Roman procurator of Judea from A.D. 26-37 under the Prefect of Syria. He was based in Caesarea but was in Jerusalem at this time for the Passover festival in case of trouble.
Pontius Pilate - The Roman procurator of Judea from A.D. 26-37 under the Prefect of Syria. He was based in Caesarea but was in Jerusalem at this time for the Passover festival in case of trouble.
"Pilate was the Roman prefect, or governor, of Judea (usually referred to as a procurator), to which position he was appointed by Tiberius in A.D. 26. He was in charge of the army of occupation, kept the taxes flowing to Rome, had power of life and death over his subjects, appointed the high priests, and decided cases involving capital punishment. He was a capricious, weak governor who let personal and political considerations out-weigh his awareness that justice was not being done in Jesus' case. He did not want another report to get to Rome that he had offended Jewish customs or could not control a situation—charges against him made to Tiberius earlier...His headquarters were in Caesarea, the city Herod built on the Mediterranean in honor of Caesar Augustus. He had a palace in Jerusalem and was in the city at Passover time, when crowds would be huge and trouble always possible." (Ryrie)
saw that Jesus was condemned - "Perhaps Judas had only wanted to force Jesus to do something to confound His enemies, not to get Himself condemned." (Ryrie)
saw that Jesus was condemned - "Perhaps Judas had only wanted to force Jesus to do something to confound His enemies, not to get Himself condemned." (Ryrie)
changed his mind = regret, remorse - not the same as the usual one meaning "change of mind"
temple = sanctuary - the entrance to the holy place
The death of Judas (v 5) is also mentioned in Acts 1:18-19.
temple = sanctuary - the entrance to the holy place
The death of Judas (v 5) is also mentioned in Acts 1:18-19.
"'He burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out' was probably due to Judas's ineptness in trying to hang himself (See Acts 1:18-19)." (Ryrie)
potter's field - a piece of waste land from which the clay has been removed for use by a potter.
potter's field - a piece of waste land from which the clay has been removed for use by a potter.
"A field where potters dug clay for making pottery vessels. It may have been full of holes so as to make it easy to bury people there who had not family tombs." (Ryrie)
spoken by the prophet Jeremiah - "These words are found in Zech 11:12-13 with allusions to Jer 18:1-4; 19:1-3. They are ascribed to Jeremiah since, in Jesus' day, the books of the prophets were headed by Jeremiah, not Isaiah as now, and the quotation is identified by the name of the first book of the group, rather than by the name of the specific book within the group Similarly in Luke 24:44, 'Psalms' includes all the books known as the 'Writings,' because it is the first book of the group." (Ryrie)
"The words 'the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced' are to be understood as a parenthesis. A similar explanatory parenthesis, had the price been twenty pieces of silver instead of thirty, might have been thus interjected: 'And they took the twenty pieces of silver (the price of him whom his brethren sold into Egypt) and they gave them' etc; Or, the verse might read: 'They took the thirty pieces of silver (the price given in Israel for an injured servant' and they gave them,' etc.)" (Williams)
spoken by the prophet Jeremiah - "These words are found in Zech 11:12-13 with allusions to Jer 18:1-4; 19:1-3. They are ascribed to Jeremiah since, in Jesus' day, the books of the prophets were headed by Jeremiah, not Isaiah as now, and the quotation is identified by the name of the first book of the group, rather than by the name of the specific book within the group Similarly in Luke 24:44, 'Psalms' includes all the books known as the 'Writings,' because it is the first book of the group." (Ryrie)
"The words 'the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced' are to be understood as a parenthesis. A similar explanatory parenthesis, had the price been twenty pieces of silver instead of thirty, might have been thus interjected: 'And they took the twenty pieces of silver (the price of him whom his brethren sold into Egypt) and they gave them' etc; Or, the verse might read: 'They took the thirty pieces of silver (the price given in Israel for an injured servant' and they gave them,' etc.)" (Williams)
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