SinaiMatthew 27:6
American Standard Version
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.
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Matthew 27:6 in other translations
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.”
Matthew 27:6 in context
- 4saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it.
- 5And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
- 6And 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.
- 7And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
- 8Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.