Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest,(A) bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the Lord’s temple.(B)

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The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful(A) 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

20 He spoke these words by the treasury,[a](A) while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour[b] had not come.

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Footnotes

  1. John 8:20 A place for offerings to be given, perhaps in the court of women
  2. John 8:20 The time of His sacrificial death and exaltation; Jn 2:4; 7:30; 12:23,27; 13:1; 17:1

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