Matthew 27:6

Modern English Version

The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because this is the price of blood.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

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

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Matthew 27:5

So he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed. And he went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

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

Mark 7:11

But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “It is Corban,” that is to say, “What you would have profited from me is a gift to God,” he shall be free.’

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. Yet they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Deuteronomy 23:18

You must never bring the wage of a prostitute or the wage of a dog into the house of the Lord your God for any vow, for both of these are abominations to the Lord your God.