And the Oh, the the Church if you brought your Bibles this morning turn with me if you would over to the

book of Matthew chapter 27 in verse one and I'm to be reading from the new King James version this morning

a version deemed unsuitable by our friends over at Jesus Savior.org who

claimed this particular text was forged in the fires of hell.

But how many of you know this morning we like to do things a little differently over here?

And also just to add a little color we've sprinkled in some period specific

annotations here and there just to really encapsulate how our Italian friends spoke here in the scriptures.

Chapter 27 verse 1, the Bible says, when morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the

people plotted against Jesus to put him to death.

And when they had bound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Then Judas, his betrayers, seeing that he had been condemned, was remorseful, and brought back

the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying,

I have sinned by betraying innocent blood. And they said to him, what is that to us? You see to that.

First five, when he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself.

Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and

departed and went and hanged himself. But the chief priest took the silver pieces and

said it is not lawful to put them into the Treasury because they are the price of blood.

And they consulted together and bought with them the Potter's Field to bury strangers in,

verse 8.

Therefore that field has been called the field of blood to this day.

And how many of us know that's true and certainly something we've been taught in school?

Verse 9.

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