^{23 Ref} "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

^{24 Ref} leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

^{25 Ref} Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in 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 Ref} Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.{Literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow's mites)--not enough to buy very much of anything.}