Matthew 27:7

So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

In Context

6When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."

8for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'

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Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:2-11

The Repentance of Judas; The Confession of Judas; The Death of Judas; Disposal of the Thirty Pieces of Silver. 1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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