Quotes About Betrayal

When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”

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

The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potterís field as a burial place for foreigners.

That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,

and they gave them for the potterís field, as the Lord had commanded me.”

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this manís blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

Then the governorís soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.

They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.

After they had mocked Him, they removed the robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him away to crucify Him.

So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.

And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

and instructed them: “You are to say, ëHis disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.í

At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philipís wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”

At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”