Matthew 27:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The chief priests gathered up the money, but said, “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

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

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

Matthew 27:5

Flinging the money into the temple, he departed and went off and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

Mark 7:11

Yet you say, ‘If a person says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban”’ (meaning, dedicated to God),

John 18:28

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was morning. And they themselves did not enter the praetorium, in order not to be defiled so that they could eat the Passover.

Deuteronomy 23:18

There shall be no temple prostitute among the Israelite women, nor a temple prostitute among the Israelite men.