5So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.


In Context

2 They bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

3 When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.

4 "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility."

5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money."

7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

Matthew 27:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: and went and hanged himself with an halter.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he left the place, and went away and hanged himself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:5and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.