Matthew 27:6

Good News Translation

The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “This is blood money, and it is against our Law to put it in the Temple treasury.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

The Lord says, “I love justice and I hate oppression and crime. I will faithfully reward my people And make an eternal covenant with them.

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!

Matthew 27:5

Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

Mark 7:11

But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, ‘This is Corban’ (which means, it belongs to God),

John 18:28

Early in the morning Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house to the governor's palace. The Jewish authorities did not go inside the palace, for they wanted to keep themselves ritually clean, in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.

Deuteronomy 23:18

Also, no money earned in this way may be brought into the house of the Lord your God in fulfillment of a vow. The Lord hates temple prostitutes.