Matthew 27:6
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The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
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You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.