Matthew 27:5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:1-10

We left Christ in the hands of the chief priests and elders, condemned to die, but they could only show their teeth; about two years before this the Romans had taken from the Jews the power of capital punishment; they could put no man to death, and therefore early in the morning another council is held, to consider what is to be done. And here we are told what was done in that morning?council, after they had been for two or three hours consulting with their pillows. I. Christ is delivered up... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 27:3-10

27:3-10 When Judas the traitor saw that Jesus had been condemned, he repented, and he brought the thirty shekels back to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed an innocent man." "What has that got to do with us?" they said. "It is you who must see to that." He threw the money into the Temple and went away. And when he had gone away, he hanged himself. The chief priests took the money. "We cannot," they said, "put these into the treasury, for they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:5

And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple ,.... Upon the ground, in that part of the temple where they were sitting; in their council chamber, לשכת הגזית , "the paved chamber", where the sanhedrim used to meet F13 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 88. 2. : for it seems they would not take the money of him; and he was determined not to carry it back with him, and therefore threw it down before them, left it, and departed ; from the sanhedrim: and went; out of the temple; not to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:5

In the temple - Ναος signifies, properly, the temple itself, into which none but the priests were permitted to enter; therefore εν τῳ ναῳ must signify, near the temple, by the temple door, where the boxes stood to receive the free-will offerings of the people, for the support and repairs of the sacred edifice. See this amply proved by Kypke. Hanged himself - Or was strangled - απηγξατο . Some eminent critics believe that he was only suffocated by excessive grief, and thus they... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:5

Verse 5 5.And he went away, and strangled himself. This is the price for which Satan sells the allurements by which he flatters wicked men for a time. He throws them into a state of fury, so that, voluntarily cutting themselves off from the hope of salvation, they find no consolation but in death. Though others would have permitted Judas to enjoy the thirty pieces of silver, by which he had betrayed Christ and his own salvation, he throws them down, and not only deprives himself of the use of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 27:1-10

The end of Judas. I. THE FORMAL CONDEMNATION OF OUR LORD . 1 . The Sanhedrin. "When the morning was come," St. Matthew says—the morning which followed the long sad hours of that night of mockery and shame; the morning which ushered in the greatest day in the world's history, the day signalized by the darkest crime ever wrought upon this sinful earth, illustrated by the one all-sufficient Sacrifice for sin, by the noblest deed of holiest self-devotion which has brightened... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 27:1-10

The price of blood. The day, whose dawn brought repentance to Peter, found the Jewish rulers still plotting how they might effect the murder of Jesus. They had in the night infamously condemned him as a blasphemer, thereby exposing him to the penalty of death by stoning. Almost a hundred years before this Judaea was conquered by Pompey, and made tributary to the Romans, yet it was not until about two years before this that it was made part of the province of Syria. Then the power of capital... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 27:1-14

Christ before Pilate. No. 1. Caiaphas had a purpose to serve by giving Jesus up to the Romans. Little did he know that while he thought he was making a tool of every one, he was merely God's tool for accomplishing his purposes. The harmony of the purpose of God, the scheme of Caiaphas, the law of Rome, and the relation of the Jewish court to the Roman procurator, explains fully how, when the Sanhedrin took counsel against Jesus to put him to death, the result was that they resolved to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 27:3-10

Remorse and suicide of Judas, and the use made of the blood money. (Peculiar to St. Matthew; cf. Acts 1:18 , Acts 1:19 .) read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 27:5

He cast down the pieces of silver in the temple ( ἐν τᾷ ναῷ , in the sanctuary, or, as good manuscripts read, εἰς το Ì ν ναο ì ν , into the sanctuary ) . The priests were in the priests' court (which would be included in the term ναο ì ς ), separated by a stone partition from the court of the Gentiles. Into the latter area Judas had pressed; and, hurrying to the wall of division, he flung the cursed shekels with all his force into the inner place, as if... read more

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