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Judas and the Chief Priests
Matthew 26:14-16
Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples. He went to the
chief priests and asked, “How much will you give me if I help
you arrest Jesus?”
They paid Judas thirty silver
coins, and from then on he started looking for a good chance to
betray Jesus.
Jesus Eats the Passover Meal
with His Disciples
Matthew 26:17-25
On the first day of the Festival of Thin Bread, Jesus’ disciples
came to him and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the
Passover meal?”
Jesus told them to go to a certain
man in the city and tell him, “Our teacher says, ‘My time has
come! I want to eat the Passover meal with my disciples in your
home.’ ”
They did as Jesus told them and
prepared the meal. When Jesus was eating with his twelve disciples
that evening, he said, “One of you will surely hand me over to
my enemies.”
The disciples were very sad, and
each one said to Jesus, “Lord, you can’t mean me!”
He answered, “One of you men who
has eaten with me from this dish will betray me. The Son of Man
will die, as the Scriptures say. But it’s going to be terrible
for the one who betrays me! That man would be better off if he had
never been born.”
Judas said, “Teacher, you surely
don’t mean me!” “That’s what you say!”
Jesus replied. But later, Judas did
betray him.
Judas Hangs
Himself
Matthew 27:3-10
Judas had betrayed Jesus, but when he learned that Jesus had been
sentenced to death, he was sorry for what he had done. He returned
the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and leaders and said,
“I have sinned by betraying a man who has never done anything
wrong.”
“So what? That’s your
problem,” they replied. Judas threw the money into the temple
and then went out and hanged himself.
The chief priests picked up the
money and said, “This money was paid to have a man killed. We
can’t put it in the temple treasury.” Then they had a meeting
and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay
pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners.
That’s why people still call that place “Field of Blood.”
So the words of the prophet
Jeremiah came true, “They took the thirty silver coins, the
price of a person among the people of Israel. They paid it for a
potter’s field, as the Lord had commanded me.”
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