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So[a] Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself. The[b] chief priests took the silver and said, “It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the leaders’ response to Judas.
  2. Matthew 27:6 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

So Judas threw the money into the temple(A) and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.(B)

The chief priests picked up the coins and said, “It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

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