Matthew 27:3

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
Then	Τότε Tote	G5119	the when · adverb
Judas	Ἰούδας Ioudas	G2455	Judas (i.e. Jehudah) · noun — nominative singular masculine, a proper name
betrayed	παραδιδοὺς paradidous	G3860	to surrender · verb — present active participle, nominative singular masculine
him	αὐτὸν auton	G846	the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — accusative singular masculine
saw	ἰδὼν idōn	G1492	used only in certain past tenses · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative singular masculine
that	ὅτι hoti	G3754	demonstrative · conjunction
condemned	κατεκρίθη, katekrithē	G2632	to judge against · verb — aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular
himself	μεταμεληθεὶς metamelētheis	G3338	to care afterwards · verb — aorist passive deponent participle, nominative singular masculine
again	ἀποστρέφω apostréphō	G654	to turn away or back (literally or figuratively)
thirty	τριάκοντα triakonta	G5144	thirty · adjective — numeral, indeclinable
silver	ἀργύρια arguria	G694	silvery · noun — accusative plural neuter
priests	ἀρχιερεῦσιν archiereusin	G749	the high-priest (literally · noun — dative plural masculine
and	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
elders	πρεσβυτέροις presbuterois	G4245	older · noun — dative plural masculine

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Job 20:15-29 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Luke 22:47-48 And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to k…
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Matthew 26:14-16 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Mark 14:10-11 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
Mark 14:43-46 And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief…
Luke 22:2-6 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

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Commentary

John Gill on Matthew 27:3

Then Judas, which had betrayed him,.... Before, he is described as he that shall, or should, or doth betray him; but now having perpetrated the horrid sin, as he that had done it. When he saw that he was condemned; that is, that Jesus was condemned, as the Syriac and Persic versions read, either by the Jewish sanhedrim, or by Pilate, or both; for this narrative concerning Judas may be prophetically inserted here, though the thing itself did not come to pass till afterwards; and the sense be, that when he, either being present during the whole procedure against Christ; or returning in the morning after he had received his money, and had been with his friends; finding that his master was cond…

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John Calvin on Matthew 27:1-10

Matthew 27:1-10 Matthew 27:1-10 Mark 15:1 Luke 23:1 1. But when it was morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. 2. And they led him away bound, and delivered him to Pointius Pilate the governor. 3. Then Judas, who had betrayed him, perceiving that he was condemned, repented, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4. Saying, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5. And having thrown down the pieces of silver in the temple, he retired, and went away, and strangled himself. 6. And the chief priests, having taken the pieces of silver…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Matthew 27:3-10

There are two accounts of Judas’s death—this one and Acts 1:18-19. There are differences between the two: (1) Matthew states that the priests bought the field (Matt 27:6-7), while Acts seems to suggest that Judas bought it (Acts 1:18); (2) Matthew reports that Judas committed suicide by hanging himself (Matt 27:5), while Acts enigmatically refers to a fall and an abdominal rupture (Acts 1:18); (3) Matthew implies that the field of blood was so named because it became a place of burial (Matt 27:7-8), while Acts suggests that it was because of Judas’s violent death there (Acts 1:19). The two accounts are compatible if one takes the account in Acts as describing the effects of the actions descr…

The Church Fathers

Judas, when he saw that the Lord was condemned to death, returned the money to the Priests, as though it had been in his power to change the minds of His persecutors.
— Jerome ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

Observe that he repents only when his sin is finished and complete; for so the Devil suffers not those who are not watchful to see the evil before they bring it to an end.
— John Chrysostom ((as quoted by Aquinas, AD 1274)), Catena Aurea by Aquinas

He cast away the weight of impiety from the greatness of his greed. Seeing that the Lord was condemned to death, Judas returned the price to the priests, as if he had the power to change the sentence of those who persecuted. Therefore, although he changed his will, he did not change the outcome of his first intention.
— Jerome, Commentary on Matthew

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Dictionary and topics

Judas Iscariot — (Judas of Kerioth). He is sometimes called “the son of Simon,” (John 6:71; 13:2,26) but more commonly ISCARIOTES. (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:19; Luke 6:16) etc. The name Iscariot has received many…
Repentance — There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance. (1.) The verb metamelomai is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not…
Apostasy · . — .
Bribery · .Chief priests bribe — .Chief priests bribe
Conscience · GUILTY — GUILTY
Conscience Money · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Judas (Jude) · .Returns the money to the rulers of the Jews — .Returns the money to the rulers of the Jews
Money · Conscience — Conscience
Mortification · . — .
Remorse · . — .
Repentance · False — Exemplified: Judas — False — Exemplified: Judas

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).