'Bribes make innocent people guilty.'

'Bribes make innocent people guilty.'

 

 

When all the chief priests and elders

bound Jesus and handed Him over to the governor, Pilate,

Judas Iscariot, who had betrayed Jesus,

regretted what he had done when he saw that Jesus was sentenced to death.

He returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying,

"I have sinned by betraying innocent blood; I have committed a great sin."

They replied, "What is that to us? It’s your responsibility."
Then, Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and went out and hanged himself.
(Matthew 27:2-5, Korean Modern Bible).
Here is the passage from Deuteronomy 27:25 in the Korean New Translation:
"Anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.

All the people shall say, 'Amen.'"
Also, from Deuteronomy 16:19 in the Korean New Translation:

“… bribery… makes innocent people guilty.”
Then I remember the words of Jesus:

“The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him,

but woe to the one who betrays the Son of Man!

It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
(Matthew 26:24, Modern Korean Bible).