Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the Lord’s temple; in it the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the Lord’s temple.
He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.
The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put it into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”
He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.
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