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25 Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. 26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there until you have paid the last penny.[a]

27 “You have heard that it was said, [b] ‘You shall not commit adultery;’Exodus 20:14

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Footnotes

  1. 5:26 literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything.
  2. 5:27 TR adds “to the ancients”.