Matthew 27:6

The Passion Translation

The chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, “We can’t keep this, for it’s unlawful to put blood money into the temple treasury.”

Cross References

John 18:28

Before dawn they took Jesus from his trial before Caiaphas to the Roman governor’s palace. Now the Jews refused to go into the Roman governor’s residence to avoid ceremonial defilement before eating the Passover meal.

Matthew 23:24

What blind guides! Nitpickers! You will spoon out a gnat from your drink, yet at the same time you’ve gulped down a camel without realizing it!

Isaiah 61:8

“For I, Yahweh, love fairness and justice, and I hate stealing and sin. I will rightly repay them because of my faithfulness and enter into an everlasting covenant with them.

Matthew 27:5

Then Judas flung the silver coins inside the temple and went out and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So after some deliberation, they decided to purchase the potter’s field of clay, to use as a cemetery for burying strangers.

Mark 7:11

“But your made-up rules allow a person to say to his parents, ‘I’ve decided to take the support you were counting on from me and make it my holy offering to God, and that will be your blessing instead.’