“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”

So he threw the silver into the sanctuary(A) and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful(B) to put it into the temple treasury,[a] since it is blood money.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:6 See Mk 7:11 where the same Gk word (Corban) means a gift pledged to the temple.
  2. Matthew 27:6 Lit the price of blood

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