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The Second Sorrowful Mystery - The Scourging at the Pillar

CHAPTER 13

The Suicide of Judas.

Then binding Jesus, they led Him away. And the whole multitude of them, rising up, delivered
Him bound to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Then Judas, who betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, saying: "I have sinned in betraying
innocent blood." But they said: "What is that to us? Look thou to it."

And casting down the pieces of silver in the Temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself with
a halter. And he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into
the carbona, 17 because it is the price of blood." And after they had consulted together, they
bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers. For this cause the field
was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: "And they took the
thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him that was prized, Whom they prized of the children of
Israel, and they gave them unto the potter's field, as the Lord appointed to me."

Matthew 27:2-14; Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; Acts 1:18

Jesus' Interior Prayer and Lamentation

O God, set Thou the sinner over him,18 and may the devil stand

17 Carbona: A place in the Temple where the people put in their gifts or offerings.
18 Set Thou the sinner over him: give power over him to the devil, that arch-sinner;