Matthew 27:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the temple. They said, “Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the temple money, because this money has paid for a man’s death.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

Matthew 27:6 Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

\{Why will this happen?\} Because I am the Lord and I love fairness. I hate stealing and everything that is wrong. So I will give the people the payment they should have. I will make an Agreement with my people forever.

Matthew 23:24

You guide the people, but you are blind! Think about a person picking a little fly out of his drink and then swallowing a camel! You are like that. {\cf2\super [344]}

Matthew 27:5

So Judas threw the money into the temple. {\cf2\super [422]} Then Judas left that place and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they decided to use the money to buy a field called Potter’s Field. This field would be a place to bury people that died while visiting \{in Jerusalem\}.

Mark 7:11

But you teach that a person can say to his father or mother, ‘I have something I could use to help you. But I will not use it to help you. I will give it to God.’

John 18:28

Then the guards took Jesus from Caiaphas’ house to the \{Roman governor’s\} palace. It was early in the morning. The Jews there would not go inside the palace. They did not want to make themselves unclean, {\cf2\super [237]} because they wanted to eat the Passover {\cf2\super [238]} meal.

Deuteronomy 23:18

The money earned by a man [146] or woman prostitute must not be brought to the special house of the Lord your God. A person can’t use that money to pay for the things he promised to give to God. Why? Because the Lord your God hates for people to sell their bodies for sexual sin.