Matthew 27:6

And the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

In Context

5And having cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and having gone away, he strangled himself.

7and having taken counsel, they bought the potter’s field with them, for the burial of strangers;

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:8“For I [am] YHWH, loving judgment, || Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, || And I have given their wage in truth, || And I make a perpetual covenant for them.

Luke 6:7and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him, if on the Sabbath He will heal, that they might find an accusation against Him.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:2-11

The Repentance of Judas; The Confession of Judas; The Death of Judas; Disposal of the Thirty Pieces of Silver. 1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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