And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

Who hearing it were glad; and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.

and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.

They gladly listened to his proposal, and promised to give him a sum of money. So he looked out for an opportunity to betray Him.

And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.

And they, upon hearing it, were gladdened. And they promised him that they would give him money. And he sought an opportune means by which he might betray him.

They were glad to hear what he said, and promised to pay him. So he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

They were glad - The joy that arises from the opportunity of murdering an innocent person must be completely infernal.

And when they heard it, they were glad,.... That such an opportunity offered, and from such a quarter, by one of his own disciples; so that it might be done more secretly and effectually, and with less blame to themselves:
and promised to give him money; any sum he should ask; and what was agreed upon were thirty pieces, or shekels of silver; and so the Ethiopic version here, instead of money, reads, "thirty pieces of silver"; See Gill on Matthew 26:15.
And he sought how he might conveniently betray him; after this promise, and upon this agreement: henceforward he sought the most fitting opportunity, and the best season of betraying his master into the hands of these men, when he was alone, and the multitude absent, and there was no danger of a tumult, or a rescue; See Gill on Matthew 26:16.

And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money--Matthew alone records the precise sum, because a remarkable and complicated prophecy, which he was afterwards to refer to, was fulfilled by it.
And he sought how he might conveniently betray him--or, as more fully given in Luke (Luke 22:6), "And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray Him unto them in the absence of the multitude." That he should avoid an "uproar" or "riot" among the people, which probably was made an essential condition by the Jewish authorities, was thus assented to by the traitor; into whom, says Luke (Luke 22:3), "Satan entered," to put him upon this hellish deed.