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 the council assembled to  pronounce  sentence  of  death on Jesus.

Then Judas  began  to  be  sorry  for  having  betrayed  his  Divine Master, and  going  to  the  chief  priests,  he  would  have  given  back the thirty  pieces  of  silver  he  had  received  as  the  price  of  his  treason, saying: “I  have  sinned  in  betraying  innocent  blood.”  But  they replied: “What  is  that  to  us? Look thou  to  it.”  Then,  being filled with  remorse, and  losing  all  hope, he  cast  down  the pieces of  silver  in  the  Temple,  and  went  and  hanged  himself with a halter.