Matthew 27:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.”

Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

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

Matthew 23:24

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Matthew 27:5

Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners.

Mark 7:11

But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God),

John 18:28

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.

Deuteronomy 23:18

You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.