Luke 22:5
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
In Context
6And he promised them, and sought opportunity to betray him to them, in the absence of the multitude.
Cross References
Matthew 26:15and said to them: What will ye give me, if I will deliver him to you? And they promised him thirty pieces of silver.
Acts 1:18He purchased a field with the wages of sin; and he fell upon his face on the ground, and burst in the middle, and all his entrails were poured out.
1 Timothy 6:9But they who desire to become rich, fall into temptations, and into snares, and into many lusts which are foolish and hurtful, and which drown men in destruction and perdition:
2 Peter 2:15and, having left the way of rectitude, they have wandered and gone in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of iniquity,
Matthew Henry on Luke 22:2-7
The Treachery of Judas. 1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. 2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. 3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. 4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them. 5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money. 6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the… Read the whole commentary →