Matthew 27:6 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁶ The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since they are a price paid for blood.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But the chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, It is not legal to put these in the [consecrated] treasury, for it is the price of blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.

Common English Bible

⁶ The chief priests picked up the silver pieces and said, “According to the Law it’s not right to put this money in the treasury. Since it was used to pay for someone’s life, it’s unclean.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But the leaders of the priests, having taken up the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple offerings, because it is the price of blood."

Matthew 27:6 Cross References

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Matthew 27:5

So he threw the pieces of silver into the temple and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they took counsel and used the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

Mark 7:11

But you teach that it is acceptable for a man to say to his father or mother, ‘Whatever benefit yoʋ might have received from me is Corban’ ” (that is, a gift to God).

John 18:28

Then the Jews led Jesus away from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was now early in the morning. They themselves did not go into the governor's headquarters so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.