"Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.

"You fools and blind; for which is greater, the gold, or the Sanctuary which hallows the gold?

"and he who swears by the Sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells therein;

"that upon your heads may come every drop of innocent blood spilt upon the earth, from the blood of Abel, the just, to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar.

And flinging down the silver into the Sanctuary, he rushed out, and went and hanged himself.

And lo, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two, from the top to the bottom;