Matthew 27:6 - 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.

More versions

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.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

Matthew 27:6 Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Matthew 23:24

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Matthew 27:5

And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Mark 7:11

but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

John 18:28

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.