“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.”
But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said: it is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money. The irony of the chief priests' scruple: they cannot put the blood money into the temple treasury because it is blood money — money obtained through betrayal of innocent blood. The men who paid the blood money and whose conspiracy shed the innocent blood scruple about the legal purity of their treasury.
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