Matthew 27:6 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
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Read Full Chapter →The priests scruple over returning blood money to the temple treasury.
What Does Matthew 27:6 Mean?
The chief priests retrieve the discarded coins and immediately raise a point of law: tainted money cannot be placed in the sacred treasury. They are careful about a ritual technicality even as they have just engineered the death of an innocent man.
Here is conscience strained through a sieve, exacting about coins yet blind to bloodguilt. The leaders fret over the purity of the treasury while their hands are stained by the very deed that defiled the silver. Their meticulous concern for the letter, paired with a deaf ear to mercy and justice, lays bare a religion of surface kept while the heart is far away.
Matthew 27:6 in the Original Language
korbanas (κορβανᾶς), 'treasury' -- the sacred temple fund of consecrated offerings.
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What does Matthew 27:6 mean?
The priests scruple over returning blood money to the temple treasury.