"For one brief moment I left you; with deep love I will take you back.

"In the time of Noah I promised never again to flood the earth. Now I promise not to be angry with you again; I will not reprimand or punish you.

When Judas, the traitor, learned that Jesus had been condemned, he repented and took back the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders.

Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: "They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,

(With the money that Judas got for his evil act he bought a field, where he fell to his death; he burst open and all his insides spilled out.

All the people living in Jerusalem heard about it, and so in their own language they call that field Akeldama, which means "Field of Blood.")

It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

Jesus is the one of whom the scripture says, 'The stone that you the builders despised turned out to be the most important of all.'