Matthew 27:6

God's Word

The chief priests took the money and said, “It’s not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it’s blood money.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:18

Never bring gifts or money earned by prostitution into the house of the Lord your God as an offering you vowed to give. These earnings are disgusting to the Lord your God.

John 18:28

Early in the morning, Jesus was taken from Caiaphas’ house to the governor’s palace. The Jews wouldn’t go into the palace. They didn’t want to become unclean, since they wanted to eat the Passover.

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You strain gnats ⌞out of your wine⌟, but you swallow camels.

Isaiah 61:8

I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery and wrongdoing. I will faithfully reward my people’s work. I will make an everlasting promise  to them.

Matthew 27:5

So he threw the money into the temple, went away, and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they decided to use it to buy a potter’s field for the burial of strangers.

Mark 7:11

But you say, ‘If a person tells his father or mother that whatever he might have used to help them is corban (that is, an offering to God),