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Matthew 27:6

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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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  1. Matthew 27:4

    Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.

  2. Matthew 27:5

    And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.

  3. Matthew 27:7

    And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

  4. Matthew 27:8

    Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.