Matthew 27:6

First Nations Version

They picked the silver pieces up from the floor and said, “It is not permitted to put them in the storehouse of the sacred lodge, for it is blood money.”

Cross References

John 18:28

Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was taken from the house of Hollow in the Rock (Caiaphas) to the lodge of the governor of the People of Iron (Romans). The tribal leaders stayed outside, for they did not want to become ceremonially unclean by going inside. It was early in the morning, and many of them had not yet eaten the ceremonial meal of Passover.

Matthew 23:24

You are spiritually blind guides, for you strain out a small flea from your water pouch, but swallow a whole moose.

Matthew 27:5

He threw the thirty pieces of silver on the floor of the sacred lodge and ran away in sorrow. He then left them and hanged himself. As the light of the sunrise grew brighter on the horizon, his lifeless body could be seen hanging from the branch of a tree. He could not live with what he had done. The head holy men did not know what to do with the pieces of silver.

Matthew 27:7

So they counseled together and used the silver to purchase a clay field that had been used for making pottery to use as a burial ground for outsiders.

Mark 7:11

But your tradition says, ‘If someone says to their father or mother, “I have given to the Great Spirit the things that were meant to honor and take care of you,”