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Into the treasury (eis ton korbanān). Josephus (War II. 9, 4) uses this very word for the sacred treasury. Korban is Aramaic for gift (dōron) as is plain in Mar 7:11. The price of blood (blood-money) was pollution to the treasury (Deu 23:18.). So they took the money out and used it for a secular purpose. The rabbis knew how to split hairs about Korban (Mark 7:1-23; Matthew 15:1-20), but they balk at this blood-money.