SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:6
Y los príncipes de los sacerdotes, tomando las piezas de plata, dijeron: No es lícito echarlas en el arca de la limosna, porque es precio de sangre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:6
Verse 6. The treasury] korbanan-the place whither the people brought their free-will offerings for the service of the temple, so called from the Hebrew brq korban, AN OFFERING, from brq karab, he drew nigh, because the person who brought the gift came nigh to that place where God manifested his glory between the cherubim, over the mercy-seat in the most holy place. It is from this idea that the phrase to draw nigh to God is taken, which is so frequently used in the sacred writings. Because it is the price of blood.] "What hypocrites, as one justly exclaims, to adjudge an innocent man to death, and break the eternal laws of justice and mercy without scruple, and to be, at the same time, so very nice in their attention to a ceremonial direction of the law of Moses! Thus it is that the devil often deludes many, even among the priests, by a false and superstitious tenderness or conscience in things indifferent, while calumny, envy, oppression of the innocent, and a conformity to the world, give them no manner of trouble or disturbance." See Quesnel.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And the chief priests took the silver pieces , etc.] Off of the ground, after Judas was gone, no other daring to meddle with them; for in any other it would have been deemed sacrilege; and they being the proper persons to take care and dispose of money brought into the temple: and if not, their covetous disposition would have moved them to take up the money: and said, one to another, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury , or Corban; as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions leave the word untranslated: and which is the place where the offerings for the repair and service of the temple were put, and is the same into which Christ beheld the people casting their money, ( Mark 12:41). Josephus observes, that there was, with the Jews, an holy treasure, which is called Corbonas; and this is the brqh tkl , the chamber of the Korban, of which the Jews make mention f1638 : the reason the high priests give why it was not lawful to put this money into the treasury, or into any of the chests in the Corban chamber, was, because it is the price of blood . Thus they strained at a gnat, and swallowed a camel. It is highly probable, that they took this selfsame money out of the treasury to buy this blood with, and yet scruple to put it in, having bought it: and besides, they made no hesitation about seeking for, and shedding this innocent blood, and yet boggle at putting this money into the Corban, because it was the price of it; proceeding upon the same reason as the law in ( Deuteronomy 23:18) does, pretending much religion, and great veneration for holy pieces and things, when they made no conscience of committing the most flagitious crimes.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when the commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manne Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinned, an betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the characte of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Juda departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of Divine wrath, and the anguish of despair. There is littl doubt but that the death of Judas was before that of our blessed Lord But was it nothing to them that they had thirsted after this blood, an hired Judas to betray it, and had condemned it to be shed unjustly Thus do fools make a mock at sin. Thus many make light of Chris crucified. And it is a common instance of the deceitfulness of ou hearts, to make light of our own sin by dwelling upon other people' sins. But the judgment of God is according to truth. Many apply thi passage of the buying the piece of ground, with the money Judas brough back, to signify the favour intended by the blood of Christ to strangers, and sinners of the Gentiles. It fulfilled a prophecy, Ze 11:12. Judas went far toward repentance, yet it was not to salvation He confessed, but not to God; he did not go to him, and say, I have sinned, Father, against heaven. Let none be satisfied with such partia convictions as a man may have, and yet remain full of pride, enmity and rebellion.
Greek Textus Receptus
οι 3588 T-NPM δε 1161 CONJ αρχιερεις 749 N-NPM λαβοντες 2983 5631 V-2AAP-NPM τα 3588 T-APN αργυρια 694 N-APN ειπον 2036 5627 V-2AAI-3P ουκ 3756 PRT-N εξεστιν 1832 5904 V-PQI-3S βαλειν 906 5629 V-2AAN αυτα 846 P-APN εις 1519 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM κορβαναν 2878 N-ASM επει 1893 CONJ τιμη 5092 N-NSF αιματος 129 N-GSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S
Vincent's NT Word Studies
6. It is not lawful. In such cases the Jewish law provided that the money was to be restored to the donor; and if he insisted on giving it, that he should be induced to spend it for something for the public weal. This explains the apparent discrepancy between Matthew's account and that in the book of Acts (i. 18). By a fiction of the law the money was still considered to be Judas', and to have been applied by him to the purchase of the potter's field.Scarlet (kokkinhn). From kokkov, cochineal, which grew in several parts of Greece. Garments of this color would seem to have been rare among the orientals. Herodotus relates that the admiration of Darius, then an officer in the army, was excited by the scarlet cloak of a Samian exile, who, on his offering to purchase it, presented it to him, and was afterward richly rewarded when Darius came to the throne (iii. 139).
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:6 {Into the treasury} (eis ton korbanan). Josephus (_War_ II. 9,4) uses this very word for the sacred treasury. _Korban_ is Aramaic for _gift_ (dwron) as is plain in #Mr 7:11. The price of blood (blood-money) was pollution to the treasury (#De 23:18f.). So they took the money out and used it for a secular purpose. The rabbis knew how to split hairs about _Korban_ (#Mr 7:1-23; Mt 15:1-20), but they balk at this blood-money.
