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Matthew 26
⁷³ A little later some of the other bystanders came over to Peter and said, “You must be one of them; we can tell by your Galilean accent.”
⁷⁴ Peter swore, “A curse on me if I’m lying—I don’t know the man!” And immediately the rooster crowed.
⁷⁵ Suddenly, Jesus’ words flashed through Peter’s mind: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me.” And he went away, weeping bitterly.
Matthew 27
¹ Very early in the morning the leading priests and the elders of the people met again to lay plans for putting Jesus to death.
² Then they bound him, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.
³ When Judas, who had betrayed him, realized that Jesus had been condemned to die, he was filled with remorse. So he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the leading priests and the elders.
⁴ “I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.” “What do we care?” they retorted. “That’s your problem.”
⁵ Then Judas threw the silver coins down in the Temple and went out and hanged himself.
⁶ The leading priests picked up the coins. “It wouldn’t be right to put this money in the Temple treasury,” they said, “since it was payment for murder.”
⁷ After some discussion they finally decided to buy the potter’s field, and they made it into a cemetery for foreigners.
⁸ That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.