And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
And he went away, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.
And he consented, and sought opportunity to deliver him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
(Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.
forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;
And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.