And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Once again they are selfcondemned by their own conscience. Don’t you see this? They knew that they had been paying straightaway for a murder. They even bought a field for the burial of strangers. They did not even put the silver into a treasury. So this directness itself became a witness against them and a proof of their treason. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
