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Matthew 27:6

Money and wealth

4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

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

8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
KJV
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
WEB
The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
ASV
And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.
DARBY
And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is [the] price of blood.
BLB
And the chief priests, having taken the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
ÅB
Men yppersteprestene tok sølvpengene og sa: «Det er ikke tillatt å legge dem i tempelkisten; for det er blodpenger.»
OTB
Overprestene samlet opp sølvet og sa: "Det er ikke lovlig å legge det i tempelkisten, da det er blodpenger."
B1930
Men yppersteprestene tok sølvpengene og sa: Det er ikke tillatt å legge dem i tempelkisten; for det er blodpenger.

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Cross references

  • Luke 6:7–9

    And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

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  • Deuteronomy 23:18

    Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

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  • Isaiah 61:8

    For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

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  • John 18:28

    Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

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  • Matthew 23:24

    Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

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