6And 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. …
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.
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.
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We left Christ in the hands of the chief priests and elders, condemned to die, but they could only show their teeth; about two years before this the Romans had taken from the Jews the power of capital punishment; they could put no man to death, and therefore early in the morning another council is held, to consider what is to be done. And here we are told what was done in that morning–council, aft…
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