Matthew 27:6. It is not lawful, etc. Based upon Deuteronomy 23:18. What was put in the treasury was deemed an offering to God.

Since it is the price of blood. They thus stigmatized the crime of their tool, but not their own. Too conscientious to defile the treasury, they were not afraid to defile their own hands. A characteristically Pharisaical scruple.

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Old Testament