Matthew 26:69-27:10

New Century Version

Peter Says He Doesn’t Know Jesus

⁶⁹ At that time, as Peter was sitting in the courtyard, a servant girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus of Galilee.”

⁷⁰ But Peter said to all the people there that he was never with Jesus. He said, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

⁷¹ When he left the courtyard and was at the gate, another girl saw him. She said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

⁷² Again, Peter said he was never with him, saying, “I swear I don’t know this man Jesus!”

⁷³ A short time later, some people standing there went to Peter and said, “Surely you are one of those who followed Jesus. The way you talk shows it.”

⁷⁴ Then Peter began to place a curse on himself and swear, “I don’t know the man.” At once, a rooster crowed. ⁷⁵ And Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you don’t know me.” Then Peter went outside and cried painfully.

Jesus Is Taken to Pilate

27 Early the next morning, all the leading priests and elders of the people decided that Jesus should die. ² They tied him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate, the governor.

Judas Kills Himself

³ Judas, the one who had given Jesus to his enemies, saw that they had decided to kill Jesus. Then he was very sorry for what he had done. So he took the thirty silver coins back to the priests and the leaders, ⁴ saying, “I sinned; I handed over to you an innocent man.”

The leaders answered, “What is that to us? That’s your problem, not ours.”

⁵ So Judas threw the money into the Temple. Then he went off and hanged himself.

⁶ The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple and said, “Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money, because it has paid for a man’s death.” ⁷ So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter’s Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem. ⁸ That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood. ⁹ So what Jeremiah the prophet had said came true: “They took thirty silver coins. That is how little the Israelites thought he was worth. ¹⁰ They used those thirty silver coins to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”^[a]