Matthew 27:6

New Century Version

The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple and said, “Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money, because it has paid for a man’s death.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

“I, the Lord, love justice. I hate stealing and everything that is wrong. I will be fair and give my people what they should have, and I will make an agreement with them that will continue forever.

Matthew 23:24

You guide the people, but you are blind! You are like a person who picks a fly out of a drink and then swallows a camel!

Matthew 27:5

So Judas threw the money into the Temple. Then he went off and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter’s Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem.

Mark 7:11

But you say a person can tell his father or mother, ‘I have something I could use to help you, but it is Corban—a gift to God.’

John 18:28

Early in the morning they led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Roman governor’s palace. They would not go inside the palace, because they did not want to make themselves unclean; they wanted to eat the Passover meal.

Deuteronomy 23:18

Do not bring a male or female prostitute’s pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord, because the Lord your God hates prostitution.