For this reason that field has been called the “Field of Blood” to this day.

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”