10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, just as the Lord directed me.”[a]

Jesus Before Pilate

11 So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the king of the Jews?” And Jesus said, “You say so.” 12 And when he was being accused[b] by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:10 A quotation from various passages in Jeremiah including 18:2–6; 19:1–13; 32:6–15; see also Zech 11:12–13
  2. Matthew 27:12 Literally “in the him being accused”