New Revised Standard Version
But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.”

Contemporary English Version
The chief priests picked up the money and said, "This money was paid to have a man killed. We can't put it in the temple treasury."

New American Bible
The chief priests gathered up the money, but said, “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

It is not.

Matthew 23:24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Luke 6:7-9 And the scribes and Pharisees watched if he would heal on the sabbath: that they might find an accusation against him. . . .

John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

to put.

Deuteronomy 23:18 Thou shalt not offer the hire of a strumpet, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord thy God, whatsoever it be that thou hast vowed: because both these are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Isaiah 61:8 For I am the Lord that love judgment, and hate robbery in a holocaust: and I will make their work in truth, and I will make a perpetual covenant with them.

because.