4 Bible Verses about Bribery, Examples Of

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Matthew 27:3-9

Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself." And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.read more.
The high priests gathered up the money, and they said, "It is not legal to put this into the Temple treasury, for it is blood money." So after consultation they bought with it the Potter's Field as a burial ground for strangers. For this reason that piece of ground has ever since been called the Field of Blood. So the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver pieces, the price of the one whose price had been fixed, on whom some of the Israelites had set a price,

Matthew 28:12-15

And they got together and consulted with the elders, and gave the soldiers a large sum of money, and said to them, "Tell people that his disciples came in the night and stole him away while you were asleep. And if news of it reaches the governor, we will satisfy him, and see that you do not get into trouble."read more.
So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.

Acts 8:18

But when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

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