Caiaphas (Empath stories)

Caiaphas is a character who is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, appearing mostly in the Smurfs' time-travel stories during The Lost Year. He was the high priest of the temple in Jerusalem who sought to destroy Jesus Christ by having him tried before the Sanhedrin and the Roman governor Pontius Pilate and then crucified. He used Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' chosen followers, to track down Jesus to the garden of Gethsemane in order to have Him arrested, paying him thirty pieces of silver. However, Judas, who realized that he betrayed innocent blood for the money, and was unable to have Jesus released when he pleaded to the high priests, threw the money at Caiaphas' feet and went to hang himself. Caiaphas then took the money and used it to buy the potter's field for burying strangers.