27:4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said, “What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”
27:5 So 1 Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.
27:6 The 2 chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the leaders’ response to Judas.