Matthew 27:6

English Standard Version 2016

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.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:18

You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Isaiah 61:8

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Matthew 27:5

And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.

Mark 7:11

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—